Angel Olsen Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

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#8. Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.

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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

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#19. I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.

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

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#21. 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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#22. I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

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#23. I feel really good about the future and working with people.

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

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

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.

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#31. People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

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