Angel Olsen Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

Different cultures have different audiences.

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

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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