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 most powerful place you can come from is just having a really deep knowing of who you are and what you want for yourself.
I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.
I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.
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.
Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere
I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.
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'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 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.
My dance move has seemingly turned into push-ups. Sometimes, especially if I've indulged a little bit in an evening, it's not out of the ordinary to find me, for some reason, doing push-ups. That seems to be my go-to dance move.
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.
I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs that sound that way - the emphasis being on the storytelling, but the arrangements and the orchestrations can be really varied - I found that to be, actually, a really joyful discovery.
No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.
There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.