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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.

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
Capable
Crazy
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People

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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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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 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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Different cultures have different audiences.
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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'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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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 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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Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
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I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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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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I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.
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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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It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
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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 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 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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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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