Angel Olsen
Angel Olsen
Angel Olsenis an American folk and indie rock singer and guitarist who was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina. She has recorded and toured as a backing singer with Bonnie "Prince" Billy and the Cairo Gang...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth22 January 1987
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
dreams others share spent taking time
'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
people want common
People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.
thinking parent age
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.
song thinking adoption
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.
people feels
I feel really good about the future and working with people.
song writing mind
I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.
mother brother crazy
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.
blood stranger share
It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.
song fun singing
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.
crazy people ask-me
A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.
meaningful interaction ifs
If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?
want unreal allowing
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.
writing mirrors talking
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.
mother girlfriend father
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.