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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

When 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.
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Easy People Quick Song Start Thinking 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
I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
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Myself Sing Song Thinking Writing
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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Library Love Myself Remember Word 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
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
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 have, like, sensory overload problems.
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Issues Myself Problem
My favorite food is hot Cheetos. I could eat those every day.
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Eat Food Myself
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
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
My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.
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Family Mental Oneself Sing Sister Thinking
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
People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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People Thinking
I’m a very stimulated person.
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Character One Liner Person
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
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
There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
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Myeself Power Proud Vulnerability
Still finding silly string in weird places.
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Children Place Weird
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
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
Orange magic in your eyes, on my mind
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Eyes Magic Mindset Yourself
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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Crazy Emotion Mindset People Woman
I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
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Hands Hold Important Myself
Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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Girl Sad Woman
I’ve written poetry most of my life.
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Life Myself Poetry Writing

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