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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.

Julia Michaels

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 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
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 want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.
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Boundary Feeling Fun Music People Writing
I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
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Myself Sing Song Thinking Writing
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
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.
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Feeling Friendship Myself Sound Work
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
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 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 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
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’ve always been a writer. I’ve always loved words, ever since I was a kid.
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Children Love Myself Word 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
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 grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.
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Age Growth Myself Travel

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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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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