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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.

Angel Olsen

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Angel Olsen
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: January 22
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Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
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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 don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.
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I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.
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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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I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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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'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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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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It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.
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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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Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?
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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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It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
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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 learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.
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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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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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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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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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