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
The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.
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.
Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere
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 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.
I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.
I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.
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 think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.
If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.
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.
I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'