I do love all types of music. I could be in a session for eight hours, and when I leave, I’ll instinctively go to the radio or put on my favourite songs.
JULIA MICHAELSI’ve always been a writer. I’ve always loved words, ever since I was a kid.
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I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.
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We could be history in the making.
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Love is weird.
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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.
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There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
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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.’
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If you listen to the radio, it’s all men who are emotional and women who are sexual. There’s nothing wrong with that! It definitely should be the case, but it makes me sad that women are afraid to be emotional because it makes them look weak.
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I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
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Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
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I’ve always been a writer. I’ve always loved words, ever since I was a kid.
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It’s ingrained in people’s minds that it’s a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.
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I’ve been the person who hides behind people and lets everyone else do their thing, and I’ve been content there.
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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.
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I’m very emotional and vulnerable.
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Hula-hooping. It makes me feel free. My stepsister introduced me to it. I used to have panic attacks all the time, and she hula-hooped to cope with her own anxiety.
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Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.
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My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.
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Working with new people can be really hard and nerve-wracking. When you don’t know the person, it’s like being on a blind date.
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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.
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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.
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It’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
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I have, like, sensory overload problems.
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Still finding silly string in weird places.
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Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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My favorite food is hot Cheetos. I could eat those every day.
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