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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.

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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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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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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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 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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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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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'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 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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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 wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.
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Different cultures have different audiences.
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I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.
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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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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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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 letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.
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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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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 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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