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.
JULIA MICHAELSI 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.
JULIA MICHAELSThere is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
JULIA MICHAELSIf 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.
JULIA MICHAELSLove is weird.
JULIA MICHAELSI grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.
JULIA MICHAELSIt’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
JULIA MICHAELSWhen 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 MICHAELSWomen often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
JULIA MICHAELSMy sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.
JULIA MICHAELSI definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
JULIA MICHAELSFor 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 MICHAELSI 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 MICHAELSStill finding silly string in weird places.
JULIA MICHAELSI would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
JULIA MICHAELSTired 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 MICHAELSIf 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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