39 Quotes by Angel Olsen

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.