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1.
Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
Angel Olsen

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A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.
Angel Olsen

3.
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.
Angel Olsen

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Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?
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5.
If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over; it just means maybe go try to live a different life.
Angel Olsen

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6.
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.
Angel Olsen

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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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8.
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!
Angel Olsen

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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.
Angel Olsen

10.
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.
Angel Olsen

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Different cultures have different audiences.
Angel Olsen

12.
I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.
Angel Olsen

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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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People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.
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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.
Angel Olsen

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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.
Angel Olsen

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I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
Angel Olsen

18.
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.
Angel Olsen

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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.
Angel Olsen

20.
It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
Angel Olsen

21.
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.
Angel Olsen

22.
I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.
Angel Olsen

23.
I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.
Angel Olsen

24.
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.
Angel Olsen

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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.
Angel Olsen

26.
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.
Angel Olsen

27.
I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.
Angel Olsen

28.
I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.
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29.
I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.
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30.
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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31.
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.
Angel Olsen

32.
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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33.
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.
Angel Olsen

34.
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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I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.
Angel Olsen

36.
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.
Angel Olsen

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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

38.
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.
Angel Olsen

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I feel really good about the future and working with people.
Angel Olsen

40.
If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?
Angel Olsen

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It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
Angel Olsen