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.
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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Love is weird.
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Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
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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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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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People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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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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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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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’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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I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.
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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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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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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’ve always been a writer. I’ve always loved words, ever since I was a kid.
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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 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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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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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 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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Orange magic in your eyes, on my mind
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My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.
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I have, like, sensory overload problems.
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