Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try? Angel Olsen More Quotes by Angel Olsen More Quotes From Angel Olsen 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 parent age thinking I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music. Angel Olsen only-child my-family children 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 brother mother father 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 singing writing song I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens. Angel Olsen ready different self 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 singing song fun 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 unreal allowing want 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 girlfriend mother father It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool. Angel Olsen existence important kind If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone? Angel Olsen interaction ifs meaningful I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor. Angel Olsen tape car player I feel really good about the future and working with people. Angel Olsen feels people I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children. Angel Olsen sound song children 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 live-your-life albums want I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things. Angel Olsen capable prove trying When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want. Angel Olsen responsibility want people 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. Angel Olsen writing character way There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair. Angel Olsen unfair kind expectations 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 lucky grace people 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 song long years
