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Angel Olsen Biography

Angel Olsen (born January 22, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from St. Louis, Missouri who currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina. She recorded and toured as a backing singer with Bonnie "Prince" Billy and the Cairo Gang, before embarking on her own career.

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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.

Player, Car, Tape, Factor, Cassette, Nostalgic

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.

Confrontation, Mirror, Mirrors, Talking, Write, Writing

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

Expectation, Expectations, Kind, Unfair

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

Meaningful, Interaction, Ifs, Thoughts, Psyched

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.

Change, Long, Song, Written, Years

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.

Allowing, Create, Interfere, Purely, Unreal, Want

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.

Changing, Intimate, Time, Writing, Writing Process

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

Firsts, Share, Spent, Time

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Blood, Happen, Share, Stranger

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!

Making, People, Song, Work, Working, Writing

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

Song, Writing, Singing, Songs, Thing, Greatly

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

Capable, Prove, Things, Trying

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

Become, Breathe, Change, Force, Song

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.

Brother, Chill, Dramatic, Father, Mother, Viewed

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

People, Feels, Good, Working, Future

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.

Father, Girlfriend, Mother, Spouse

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.

Brain, Different, Experience, Life, Might, Way

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.

Albums, Life, Like, Live Your Life, Make, Want

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.

Affecting, Fun, Singing, Song, Time

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.

Different, Films, Life, Mean, Trying

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