Top 80 Sara Bareilles Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Show me how big your brave is.”

— Sara Bareilles

2. “Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out honestly.”

— Sara Bareilles

3. “All my life I’ve tried to make everybody happy while I just hurt and hide, waiting for someone to tell me it’s my turn to decide.”

— Sara Bareilles

4. “True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.”

— Sara Bareilles

5. “Love is blind, but when we close our eyes, we see with our hearts.”

— Sara Bareilles

6. “I would never intentionally want to hurt someone’s feelings.”

— Sara Bareilles

7. “You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.”

— Sara Bareilles

8. “I love the morning time – a cup of coffee and to sit at the piano, that’s probably my favorite time.”

— Sara Bareilles

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9. “Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you’ll get nowhere.”

— Sara Bareilles

10. “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.”

— Sara Bareilles

11. “When I look back, I was so mean to myself, and I was so uncomfortable in my own skin. I still feel that very loudly sometimes, but to try and really nurture that sense that you are your own friend.”

— Sara Bareilles

12. “You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug.”

— Sara Bareilles

13. “I’m starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can’t be a mistake if I just call it ‘change.’”

— Sara Bareilles

14. “I can very much relate to waking up inside of your life and saying to yourself, “How did I get here?””

— Sara Bareilles

15. “I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.”

— Sara Bareilles

16. “Always be chasing the sun. All we can do, is try, and live like we’re still alive.”

— Sara Bareilles

17. “Surrender is a healing sentiment to return to.”

— Sara Bareilles

18. “So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody’s ceiling?”

— Sara Bareilles

19. “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

20. “It’d be a shame to stop now that I’ve started to make really good mistakes.”

— Sara Bareilles

21. “The struggle is to stay present enough when you’re taking your next step forward that you’re really making your most honest choices.”

— Sara Bareilles

22. “I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.”

— Sara Bareilles

23. “I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.”

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24. “My earth is somebody’s ceiling.”

— Sara Bareilles

25. “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.”

— Sara Bareilles

26. “No one is anything but a shade of grey. It’s good people making bad choices.”

— Sara Bareilles

27. “One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.”

— Sara Bareilles

28. “I love the morning time. There’s something about having the day in front of you.”

— Sara Bareilles

29. “If you take your fear and mash it into something that’s actually useful, then it doesn’t feel like it wins.”

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30. “I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.”

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31. “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.”

— Sara Bareilles

32. “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.”

— Sara Bareilles

33. “Its so easy to just rip someones work apart.”

— Sara Bareilles

34. “Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you’ve got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.”

— Sara Bareilles

35. “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

36. “My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It’s saved me so much time ’cause on the road you don’t have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.”

— Sara Bareilles

37. “I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.”

— Sara Bareilles

38. “My emotional hangover was thick and thorny and I felt antsy, wanting to crawl out of my own skin. I had hoped I would sleep off those weird, crazy feelings and wake up “normal,” but my melancholy was everywhere and I couldn’t pretend otherwise.”

— Sara Bareilles

39. “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

40. “Your a lovely creation, I’d like to think that I am too. My friends said I look better with out you.”

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41. “I go straight for Seinfeld, Modern Family, Friends, and Golden Girls. Those are my pillars of strength on TV.”

— Sara Bareilles

42. “Set me free, leave me be, I don’t want to fall another moment into your gravity, here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I’m supposed to be, but your onto me, your all over me.”

— Sara Bareilles

43. “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

44. “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

45. “The music industry can feel wonderful, but it can also feel very cold.”

— Sara Bareilles

46. “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

47. “You are overwhelmed and haven’t learned to be your own friend through this yet. You will. Your fear of jumping without a net is so valid, and the trick that you haven’t learned yet is that that’s life, always and everywhere. There are no nets. Life is a big, long free fall, and the sooner you can embrace what is beautiful about that, the sooner you will start to enjoy the ride.”

— Sara Bareilles

48. “I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.”

— Sara Bareilles

49. “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

50. “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.”

— Sara Bareilles