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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.

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
Ever
Greatly
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Six
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Seven
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Songs
Since
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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 don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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 not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.
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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 just want to scream: I'm being honest, I swear! Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.
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Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?
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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 feel really good about the future and working with people.
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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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