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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

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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Artist Break Up People Person Relationship Song
I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
JULIA MICHAELS

Myself Sing Song Writing
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
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
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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Attack Body Feeling Happiness People Talk Try Yourself
Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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Myself Plant Tree
My favorite food is hot Cheetos. I could eat those every day.
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Eat Food Myself
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
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

Artist Aware Easy Material Talk Thinking Writing
People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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People Thinking
I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
JULIA MICHAELS

Myself Sing Song Thinking 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
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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Feeling Friendship Myself Sound Work
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
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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Girl Sad Woman

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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