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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.

Julia Michaels

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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Competition Music People Politics Song Start Try Yourself
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
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’m a very stimulated person.
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Character One Liner Person
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 MICHAELS

Easy People Quick Song Start Thinking Yourself
I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
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Myself Sing Song Thinking 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
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
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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Fight Myself Path Problem Relationship Work Yourself
I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
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Hands Hold Important Myself
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
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
Love is weird.
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Love One Liner Weird
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 MICHAELS

Act Body Clothes Myself People Talk Tired
I think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.
JULIA MICHAELS

Afraid Appearance Thinking Vulnerable Weakness Woman
There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
JULIA MICHAELS

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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Deep Emotion Feeling Music Myself People Touch
Still finding silly string in weird places.
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Children Place Weird
Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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Myself Plant Tree
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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Library Love Myself Remember Word Writing
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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Body Myself Song Therapy 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
It’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
JULIA MICHAELS

Man Vulnerable
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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Attack Body Feeling Happiness People Talk Try Yourself
I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
JULIA MICHAELS

Myself Sing Song Writing
I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.
JULIA MICHAELS

Boundary Feeling Fun Music People Writing
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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Clean Feeling Funny Myself Sound Water Writing

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