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I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

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
People
Songs
Personal
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Nothing
Believe
Life

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People are buying more vinyl now than they did in the late '90s or 2000s. I like having different mediums of the record. It's always interesting to see how the tapes end up looking because they are so tiny.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.
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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 feel really good about the future and working with people.
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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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Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?
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I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.
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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 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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People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.
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