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Julia Michaels

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
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
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 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
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
Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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Girl Sad Woman
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
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
People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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People Thinking
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
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
Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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Myself Plant Tree
Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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Combination Different Music People Sing Try
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 would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
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Hands Hold Important Myself
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
Love is weird.
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Love One Liner 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
We could be history in the making.
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Ability History Inspirational Myself Worth
I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
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Myself Sing Song Writing
I’ve written poetry most of my life.
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Life Myself Poetry Writing
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
Orange magic in your eyes, on my mind
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Eyes Magic Mindset Yourself
There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
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Myeself Power Proud Vulnerability
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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Library Love Myself Remember Word 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

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