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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.

Angel Olsen

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Angel Olsen
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: January 22
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
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I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.
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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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I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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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 just want to scream: I'm being honest, I swear! Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.
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