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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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St. Louis
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If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over it just means maybe go try to live a different life.
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Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?
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In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as intimate as it as before, if not more. Because I need my time more than I had before.
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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 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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My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.
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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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I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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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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