"Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice."

-- Steve Toltz

“I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.”
“The world is alive, blinking and clicking, winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music thatâ€™s been playing since the beginning of time, if you bend all the way down and put your ear to the ground to listen for it.”
“The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.”
“A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.”
“I want to be more consistent. I wanna get hits. I wanna get my average back up where people think I can hit.”
“It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.”

Source : "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.
“I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where you flopped it open and pulled out the bellows. And I've been at it ever since - I've never stopped”
“I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.”

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