Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles
Sara Beth Bareilles is an American singer-songwriter. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song", which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Bareilles has sold over one million albums and over nine million singles/downloads in the United States of America alone and has earned five Grammy Award nominations, including one Album of the Year nomination for her album The Blessed Unrest. In the third season of NBC's The Sing-Off, Bareilles was a celebrity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth7 December 1979
CityEureka, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Sara Bareilles quotes about
I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.
I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.
You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.
You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug
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 am passionate about young women and advocating for them.
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.
The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices.
The music industry can feel wonderful, but it can also feel very cold.
Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.
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 can very much relate to waking up inside of your life and saying to yourself, "How did I get here?"
I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's one of the main tenets of Buddhism - accepting that what is, is. The root of our suffering is when we just don't want to accept a truth. We want something to be different than it is.
I got really into rock - soft, romantic rock was my jam.