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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.

Julia Michaels

I’m very emotional and vulnerable.
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Emotional Myself Vulnerable
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
Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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Myself Plant Tree
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 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
We could be history in the making.
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Ability History Inspirational Myself Worth
People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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People Thinking
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 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
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
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
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.
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Artist Break Up People Person Relationship Song
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’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
Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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Combination Different Music People Sing Try
Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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Girl Sad Woman
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
I’ve written poetry most of my life.
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Life Myself Poetry Writing
I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.
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Age Growth Myself Travel
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 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
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
I’m a very stimulated person.
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Character One Liner Person
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
Still finding silly string in weird places.
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Children Place Weird
I 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.
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Burn Food God Myself Perfection
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

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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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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