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I have, like, sensory overload problems.

Julia Michaels

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
Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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Girl Sad Woman
I’ve written poetry most of my life.
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Life Myself Poetry 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
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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Feeling Freedom Herself Introduction Time
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
There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
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Myeself Power Proud Vulnerability
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
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
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
It’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
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Man Vulnerable
Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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Combination Different Music People Sing Try
I’ve always been a writer. I’ve always loved words, ever since I was a kid.
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Children Love Myself Word Writing
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
I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
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Myself Sing Song Thinking Writing
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 favorite food is hot Cheetos. I could eat those every day.
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Eat Food Myself
We could be history in the making.
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Ability History Inspirational Myself Worth
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
I think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.
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Afraid Appearance Thinking Vulnerable Weakness Woman
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
Still finding silly string in weird places.
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Children Place Weird
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
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.
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Act Body Clothes Myself People Talk Tired
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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Boundary Feeling Fun Music People Writing
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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Hide Myself People Person Satisfaction

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