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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
Composer
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Music Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
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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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It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
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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 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 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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I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.
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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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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'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.
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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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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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People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.
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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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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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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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If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over it just means maybe go try to live a different life.
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I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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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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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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