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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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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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I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.
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I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.
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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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It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
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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 very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
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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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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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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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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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