Angel Olsen

“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.”

“'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.”

“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!”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.”

“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.”

“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.”

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