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.
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.’
More Julia Michaels Quotes
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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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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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My favorite food is hot Cheetos. I could eat those every day.
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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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I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
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Orange magic in your eyes, on my mind
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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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I’m very emotional and vulnerable.
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It’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
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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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I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.
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I think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.
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I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
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I have, like, sensory overload problems.
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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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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.
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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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Love is weird.
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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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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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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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Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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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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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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Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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