I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
JULIA MICHAELSOnce 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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I have, like, sensory overload problems.
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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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There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
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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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I’ve been the person who hides behind people and lets everyone else do their thing, and I’ve been content there.
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People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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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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I’ve written poetry most of my life.
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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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Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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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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Still finding silly string in weird places.
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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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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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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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