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Sara Bareilles
Age: 44
Born: 1979
Born: December 7
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Eureka
California
Sara Beth Bareilles
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Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.
Sara Bareilles
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.
Sara Bareilles
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.
Sara Bareilles
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.
Sara Bareilles
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.
Sara Bareilles
I go straight for Seinfeld, Modern Family, Friends, and Golden Girls. Those are my pillars of strength on TV.
Sara Bareilles
I feel like I'm on the precipice - just seeing a better version of me coming out.
Sara Bareilles
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.
Sara Bareilles
I definitely get a little antsy when I haven't had a good fix!
Sara Bareilles
You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.
Sara Bareilles
No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.
Sara Bareilles
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.
Sara Bareilles
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.
Sara Bareilles
I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.
Sara Bareilles
I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.
Sara Bareilles
It's very exciting to be a part of a team of collaborators in general.
Sara Bareilles
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.
Sara Bareilles
I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.
Sara Bareilles
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.
Sara Bareilles
The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'
Sara Bareilles