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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.

Julia Michaels

I’ve been the person who hides behind people and lets everyone else do their thing, and I’ve been content there.
JULIA MICHAELS

Hide Myself People Person Satisfaction
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.’
JULIA MICHAELS

Body Myself Song Therapy Writing
I have, like, sensory overload problems.
JULIA MICHAELS

Issues Myself Problem
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

Feeling Freedom Herself Introduction Time
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
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 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
Orange magic in your eyes, on my mind
JULIA MICHAELS

Eyes Magic Mindset Yourself
I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
JULIA MICHAELS

Hands Hold Important Myself
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.
JULIA MICHAELS

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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Act Body Clothes Myself People Talk Tired
Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
JULIA MICHAELS

Myself Plant Tree
My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.
JULIA MICHAELS

Family Mental Oneself Sing Sister Thinking
There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
JULIA MICHAELS

Myeself Power Proud Vulnerability
I’m very emotional and vulnerable.
JULIA MICHAELS

Emotional Myself Vulnerable
People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
JULIA MICHAELS

People Thinking

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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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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