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I’ve always been a writer. I’ve always loved words, ever since I was a kid.

Julia Michaels

It never feels like work. I get to go to the studio and be with my friends every day and write new things and experiment with new sounds. We just have a blast.
JULIA MICHAELS

Feeling Friendship Myself Sound Work
I’ve been the person who hides behind people and lets everyone else do their thing, and I’ve been content there.
JULIA MICHAELS

Hide Myself People Person Satisfaction
When you first start out, people think this is super easy and you find your crew super quick. But you’ve really got to go through songwriter boot camp to find your people.
JULIA MICHAELS

Easy People Quick Song Start Thinking Yourself
I’ve written poetry most of my life.
JULIA MICHAELS

Life Myself Poetry Writing
There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
JULIA MICHAELS

Myeself Power Proud Vulnerability
It’s ingrained in people’s minds that it’s a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.
JULIA MICHAELS

Crazy Emotion Mindset People Woman
I write songs for myself, but I never keep them. I’m like, ‘O.K., that was my therapy – it’s out of my body now. I’m going to give it to somebody else so it can be their therapy, too.’
JULIA MICHAELS

Body Myself Song Therapy Writing
My favorite food is hot Cheetos. I could eat those every day.
JULIA MICHAELS

Eat Food Myself
If I get writer’s block – this is going to sound funny – I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I’m cleaning my brain as well as my body.
JULIA MICHAELS

Clean Feeling Funny Myself Sound Water Writing
Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
JULIA MICHAELS

Girl Sad Woman
I just remember really loving words and writing about anything I could, and the way I’d remember things, like my library card number, was to make a melody.
JULIA MICHAELS

Library Love Myself Remember Word Writing
For the first three years, when I was writing, I was doing sessions with a whole bunch of different people all the time every day until I met Lindy Robbins, who kind of mentored me. And then, once you find that, all the pieces come together.
JULIA MICHAELS

Different Myself Person Pieces Time Togetherness Writing
I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
JULIA MICHAELS

Myself Sing Song Writing
I had all these singles come out within a two-month period, and then nothing for almost two years. You start to feel a little irrelevant. You realize how many people there are trying to be songwriters and how competitive it is and how political things can be.
JULIA MICHAELS

Competition Music People Politics Song Start Try Yourself
Tired of people telling me how I should have a fucking body. What I should wear on it. How I should act with it. What I should fucking shave off of it.
JULIA MICHAELS

Act Body Clothes Myself People Talk Tired
People are always going to have something to say about you or your body. They will always try to attack you when you’re feeling the most happy or the most yourself you’ve ever been.
JULIA MICHAELS

Attack Body Feeling Happiness People Talk Try Yourself

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