Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
JULIA MICHAELSWomen often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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.
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.
JULIA MICHAELSLove is weird.
JULIA MICHAELSIf 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.
JULIA MICHAELSIt’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
JULIA MICHAELSI have, like, sensory overload problems.
JULIA MICHAELSI’ve written poetry most of my life.
JULIA MICHAELSPeople are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
JULIA MICHAELSStill finding silly string in weird places.
JULIA MICHAELSI’m a very stimulated person.
JULIA MICHAELSI 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.
JULIA MICHAELSHula-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.
JULIA MICHAELSI 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.’
JULIA MICHAELSI 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.
JULIA MICHAELSI 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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