Glen Ballard (born 1953 in Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.) is a veteran songwriter and record producer, best known as the producer of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, which went platinum sixteen times in the U.S. and more than 30 million sold world wide. He started playing the piano as soon as he could crawl, and later learned the guitar. Ballard was ten years old when he wrote his first song, and he was in local rock bands beginning in grade five.