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 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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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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People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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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 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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I’m very emotional and vulnerable.
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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 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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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 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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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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Love is weird.
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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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