Angel Olsen Quotations

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

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.

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 feel really good about the future and working with people.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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