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
people grace lucky
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.
expectations kind unfair
There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.
people
It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
song writing people
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!
responsibility people want
When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.
trying prove capable
I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.
firsts share
Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
writing character way
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.
live-your-life want albums
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.
brain might way
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.
mean trying different
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.