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It’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.

Julia Michaels

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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Clean Feeling Funny Myself Sound Water Writing
I’m a very stimulated person.
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Character One Liner Person
I have, like, sensory overload problems.
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Issues Myself Problem
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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Deep Emotion Feeling Music Myself People Touch
Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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Myself Plant Tree
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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Easy People Quick Song Start Thinking Yourself
My favorite food is hot Cheetos. I could eat those every day.
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Eat Food Myself
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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Different Myself Person Pieces Time Togetherness Writing
It’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
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Man Vulnerable
I’m very emotional and vulnerable.
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Emotional Myself Vulnerable
I’ve written poetry most of my life.
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Life Myself Poetry Writing
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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Library Love Myself Remember Word Writing
People are always going to have something to say about you or your body. They will always try to attack you when you’re feeling the most happy or the most yourself you’ve ever been.
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Attack Body Feeling Happiness People Talk Try Yourself
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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Feeling Friendship Myself Sound Work
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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Artist Aware Easy Material Talk Thinking Writing
My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.
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Family Mental Oneself Sing Sister Thinking
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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Date People Work Yourself
Love is weird.
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Love One Liner Weird
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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Artist Break Up People Person Relationship Song
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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Competition Music People Politics Song Start Try Yourself
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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Fight Myself Path Problem Relationship Work Yourself
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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Leaving Love Music Myself
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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Different People Performance Start Success Yourself
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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Appearance Emotional Listening Man Sex Weakness Woman
Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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Girl Sad Woman
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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Crazy Emotion Mindset People Woman
Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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Combination Different Music People Sing Try

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