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I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.

Julia Michaels

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 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
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
People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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People Thinking
Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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Girl Sad Woman
It’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
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Man Vulnerable
Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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Combination Different Music People Sing Try
I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
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Myself Sing Song Writing
I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
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Myself Sing Song Thinking Writing
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
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.
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Act Body Clothes Myself People Talk Tired
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
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
I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
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Hands Hold Important Myself
My boyfriend and I like to fight a lot. I have a lot of problems. He has a lot of problems. Somehow, we always work them out and find a way back to each other.
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Fight Myself Path Problem Relationship Work Yourself
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 grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.

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