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I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.

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
Twos
Twins
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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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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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People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.
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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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It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
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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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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'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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The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these strangers that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.
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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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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 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 know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
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