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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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

ask-me crazy people

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

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why-not trying sometimes

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

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share firsts

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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different brain might

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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mirrors writing talking

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.

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different trying mean

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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honest care want

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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stranger share blood

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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writing song people

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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guitar song thinking

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

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song believe people

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

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want common people

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.

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different people interesting

Different cultures have different audiences.

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different-cultures different culture

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

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breathe song

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

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folk-music mean

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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writing-process intimate writing

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

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weird-things knows people

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

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mind writing song

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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adoption song thinking