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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.

Angel Olsen

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Angel Olsen
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: January 22
Composer
Guitarist
Music Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
Disappoint
Aware
Responsibility
Much
People

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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.
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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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I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.
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I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.
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A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.
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It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
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You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.
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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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People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.
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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 don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.
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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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It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
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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 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 not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.
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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.
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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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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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