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.
JULIA MICHAELSI’ve written poetry most of my life.
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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.
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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 think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.
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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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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 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’m very emotional and vulnerable.
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Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
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Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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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 would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
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I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
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Orange magic in your eyes, on my mind
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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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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 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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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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I have, like, sensory overload problems.
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It’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
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Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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I’ve written poetry most of my life.
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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’m a very stimulated person.
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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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