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.
JULIA MICHAELSStill finding silly string in weird places.
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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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Orange magic in your eyes, on my mind
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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.
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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.
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I could make apple pie every single day. You need to be super precise in order for it to be perfect. I’m such a perfectionist that baking is calming for me. I’ve never burnt anything, thank God.
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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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It’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
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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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I’ve written poetry most of my life.
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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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An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.
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I’m a very stimulated person.
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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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Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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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 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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I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
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Still finding silly string in weird places.
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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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I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what’s happening, it’s so much easier for us to write a song that’s specific to them.
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I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
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I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.
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I think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.
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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.
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My boyfriend and I like to fight a lot. I have a lot of problems. He has a lot of problems. Somehow, we always work them out and find a way back to each other.
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We could be history in the making.
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