Sara Bareilles Quotes

No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.

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

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

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

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.

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

I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano and use a handheld microphone and connect with the audience, but I think my soul as a performer is just a little bit more connected to the instrument. To just sort of sit and sing - that feels like the most natural fit for me.

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

Music is catharsis for me.

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 work a lot with men, and I work with wonderful men that I absolutely adore, but it's something that I'm now paying attention to - to seek out and make room for the talented women in all the technical fields and creative fields across the board.

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.

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.

I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined.

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

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

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

There are so many wonderful classic roles, but I also would be really interested in developing something brand new. I think my heart would probably be in developing something brand new; I think that sounds really exciting.

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.

I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.

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

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

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

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.

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.

My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.

I'm happy to be working with all women.

The earliest issue I can remember going through was body image issues. I was a chubby little kid and I got made fun of for it. I dealt with horrible, horrible self esteem issues, and I still struggle with that. I think it's what taught me a lot of empathy and compassion, though, but there are those days where I look in the mirror and I still see twelve year old fat Sara.

I think I'm someone who is really prone to melancholy, and the super heavy, thick shows kind of spiral me out into not being able to be as happy a person as I think I deserve to be, so I tend to watch things like 30 Rock and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Anything Tina Fey's involved in. And Parks and Rec. I love comedies!

I think that's my hope for a lot of the feminist movement is that the gender thing sort of stops being the selling point, if that makes any sense. We're just people making art, and that's how this process has felt to me.

I love the morning time. There's something about having the day in front of you.

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

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.

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.

Show me how big your brave is.

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

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

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

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

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.

You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug

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

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

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

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

I'd like to think I could physically manage doing that, but I don't think it feels authentic to the kind of performer that I am. I think that, for me, being stationary and just sort of singing the songs seems to be the most connected and authentic expression for me on stage.

I think it was the perfect gestation time for this particular piece [ Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song]. One of the songs that I considered talking about was "Manhattan," because it was chronicling the end of a long relationship that was part of the reason why I moved from Los Angeles to New York, which was such a life-changing decision. I don't regret that it's not in there, but that's one that I considered diving into, and I have little piecemeal snippets of writing about that floating around