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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.

Julia Michaels

I’ve been the person who hides behind people and lets everyone else do their thing, and I’ve been content there.
JULIA MICHAELS

Hide Myself People Person Satisfaction
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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Attack Body Feeling Happiness People Talk Try Yourself
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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Different People Performance Start Success Yourself
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
I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
JULIA MICHAELS

Myself Sing Song Writing
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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Appearance Emotional Listening Man Sex Weakness Woman
I have, like, sensory overload problems.
JULIA MICHAELS

Issues Myself Problem
People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
JULIA MICHAELS

People Thinking
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
Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
JULIA MICHAELS

Girl Sad Woman
There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
JULIA MICHAELS

Myeself Power Proud Vulnerability
I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.
JULIA MICHAELS

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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Library Love Myself Remember Word 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.
JULIA MICHAELS

Artist Aware Easy Material Talk Thinking Writing
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.’
JULIA MICHAELS

Body Myself Song Therapy Writing
I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.
JULIA MICHAELS

Boundary Feeling Fun Music People 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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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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