Sara Bareilles Quotes

Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out honestly.

Jump start my kaleidoscope heart, Love to watch the colors fade, They may not make sense, But they sure as hell made me.

True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.

Show me how big your brave is.

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.

Love is blind, but when we close our eyes, we see with our hearts.

I'm happy to be working with all women.

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices.

I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.

I'm that person who owns all of the seasons on DVDs, including the Lifetime intimate portraits showcasing The Golden Girls. I am a massive fan. I think I'm Dorothy. She's my favorite.

When I look back, I was so mean to myself, and I was so uncomfortable in my own skin. I still feel that very loudly sometimes, but to try and really nurture that sense that you are your own friend.

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

It's very exciting to be a part of a team of collaborators in general.

I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

I feel like I'm on the precipice - just seeing a better version of me coming out.

I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.

I think it's one of those things about live performance - anything goes, anything can happen, and you have to just be ready and able to roll with the punches.

I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really open to whatever possibilities present themselves.

Music is catharsis for me.

Never say never - I certainly have those dreams, and I hope that it happens at some point,I hope I get to see those stage lights.

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.

If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.

My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.

I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.

I got really into rock - soft, romantic rock was my jam.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

My earth is somebody's ceiling

I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

All my life I've tried to make everybody happy while I just hurt and hide, waiting for someone to tell me it's my turn to decide.

I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.

I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.

The most powerful place you can come from is just having a really deep knowing of who you are and what you want for yourself.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

I definitely get a little antsy when I haven't had a good fix!

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.

One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

The music industry can feel wonderful, but it can also feel very cold.