Alanis Morissette has admitted she wouldn't be able to do long tours without bringing her kids with her.
Alanis Morissette
The mother-of-three - who has six-month-old son Winter, Ever Imre, nine, and three-year-old Onyx Solace with rapper husband Mario Treadway - has revealed that her brood had to join her on the 'Jagged Little Pill' 25th anniversary world tour, because it's impossible for her to be away from them for long periods.
The 'All I Really Want' hitmaker described their touring family lifestyle as a "nomadic circus" and insisted her kids are "really happy" to be with their parent on the road.
Speaking on UK TV show 'This Morning', she said: "Yeah, archetypically I was born to be a mom.
"So there would be no way for me to tour for a year-and-a-half, which is what it looks like it will be, without them.
"It's sort of a nomadic circus attachment, village community thing.
"My daughter will run down the hall in the hotel and every door will open and she will know ever single person.
"For them, they are really happy."
When she is in the studio, the 45-year-old singer revealed that her son Ever often comes in while she is working, and that she has had to "adapt" to make her career work around her children.
She said: "I've written songs where there is a knock at my door and my son comes in and puts his hand on my shoulder while I'm writing.
"So I've had to adapt to integrating it all."
Alanis' 'Jagged Little Pill' tour comes to London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire tonight (04.03.30), where she is set to play a special sold-out acoustic show.
The Canadian-American singer/songwriter is due to release her first album in eight years, 'Such Pretty Forks in the Road' - the follow-up to 2012's 'Havoc and Bright Lights' - on May 1.
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