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Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.
Alanis Morissette
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Alanis Morissette
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 1
Actor
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Alanis Nadine Morissette
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