Julia Michaels Quotes

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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Hide Myself People Person Satisfaction
I’m very emotional and vulnerable.
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Emotional Myself Vulnerable
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
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
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 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
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’m a very stimulated person.
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Character One Liner Person
I’ve written poetry most of my life.
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Life Myself Poetry Writing
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
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
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
I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.
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Myself Sing Song Thinking Writing
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
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
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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Clean Feeling Funny Myself Sound Water Writing
I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
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Myself Sing Song 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.
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Artist Aware Easy Material Talk Thinking Writing
I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.
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Hands Hold Important Myself
We could be history in the making.
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Ability History Inspirational Myself Worth
Still finding silly string in weird places.
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Children Place Weird
Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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Girl Sad Woman
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
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
Plantin’ lemon trees since I was twenty-three
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Myself Plant Tree
Hula-hooping. It makes me feel free. My stepsister introduced me to it. I used to have panic attacks all the time, and she hula-hooped to cope with her own anxiety.
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Feeling Freedom Herself Introduction Time

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