Latest Angel Olsen Quotes from Interviews

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

  Angel Olsen

  Mean, Folk Music

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Breathe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Writing, Intimate, Writing Process

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Angel Olsen

  People, Weird Things, Knows

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

• Different cultures have different audiences.

  Angel Olsen

  Different, Culture, Different Cultures

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

• 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

  People, Interesting, Different

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

• 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

  Running, Home, Writing

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

• I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.

  Angel Olsen

  Player, Car, Tape

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

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

  Angel Olsen

  People, Feels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Writing, Mind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Angel Olsen

  Blood, Stranger, Share

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Angel Olsen

  People, Want, Common

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Thinking, Adoption

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Thinking, Parent, Age

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Song, Writing, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Angel Olsen

  Children, Only Child, My Family

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Angel Olsen

  Trying, Why Not, Sometimes

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.

  Angel Olsen

  Self, Different, Ready

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Song, Fun, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Crazy, People, Ask Me

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Song, Thinking, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Angel Olsen

  Care, Want, Honest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Believe, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Children, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com