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In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.

Angel Olsen

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Angel Olsen
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: January 22
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Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
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I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!
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I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.
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I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.
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I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.
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I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.
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I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.
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Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?
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I just want to scream: I'm being honest, I swear! Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.
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When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.
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I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.
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Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.
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I feel really good about the future and working with people.
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My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything, people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.
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I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.
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I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.
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Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.
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The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these strangers that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.
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It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
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I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.
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I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place.
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