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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

It’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
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Man Vulnerable
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
I’m a very stimulated person.
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Character One Liner Person
I’ve written poetry most of my life.
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Life Myself Poetry Writing
Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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Girl Sad Woman
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
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
I have, like, sensory overload problems.
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Issues Myself Problem
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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Different People Performance Start Success Yourself
Working with new people can be really hard and nerve-wracking. When you don’t know the person, it’s like being on a blind date.
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Date People Work Yourself
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 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
I’m very emotional and vulnerable.
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Emotional Myself Vulnerable
There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
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Myeself Power Proud Vulnerability
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 just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
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Myself Sing Song Writing
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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Deep Emotion Feeling Music Myself People Touch
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
I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
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Myself Sing Song Thinking Writing
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
Still finding silly string in weird places.
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Children Place Weird
Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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Myself Plant Tree
I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
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Hands Hold Important Myself
Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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Combination Different Music People Sing Try
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.
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Easy People Quick Song Start Thinking Yourself
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

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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