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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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It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
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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'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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You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be. You realize that you need to like yourself.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
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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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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'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.
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Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.
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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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It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
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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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I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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