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 MICHAELSI’ve always been a writer. I’ve always loved words, ever since I was a kid.
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Love is weird.
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We could be history in the making.
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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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People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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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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Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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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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Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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I have, like, sensory overload problems.
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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 grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.
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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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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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I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
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