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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.

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
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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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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'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.
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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 know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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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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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've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.
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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'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.
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Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?
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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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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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Different cultures have different audiences.
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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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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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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'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.
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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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