I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.

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

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

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

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.

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'm happy to be working with all women.