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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 feel really good about the future and working with 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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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 can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?
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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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Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
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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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People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.
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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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Different cultures have different audiences.
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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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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 listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.
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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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