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I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.

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
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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 just want to scream: I'm being honest, I swear! Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.
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I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.
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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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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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