I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.
JULIA MICHAELSIt 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.
More Julia Michaels Quotes
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I’m a very stimulated person.
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There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
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When you start to have success, people look at you differently and expect more from you. With that comes a lot of pressure to perform, so it can be a little overwhelming.
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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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Still finding silly string in weird places.
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I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
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Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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My favorite food is hot Cheetos. I could eat those every day.
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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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I’ve always been a writer. I’ve always loved words, ever since I was a kid.
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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 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 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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People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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