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.
JULIA MICHAELSFor 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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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.
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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 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’m very emotional and vulnerable.
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It’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
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Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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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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Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
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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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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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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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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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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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