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There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

Angel Olsen

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Angel Olsen
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: January 22
Composer
Guitarist
Music Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
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I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.
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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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In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.
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If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?
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I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.
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I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.
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I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.
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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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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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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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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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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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It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
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Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
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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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