Top 80 Sara Bareilles Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I’m that person who owns all of the seasons on DVDs, including the Lifetime intimate portraits showcasing The Golden Girls. I am a massive fan. I think I’m Dorothy. She’s my favorite.”

— Sara Bareilles

52. “If I get frustrated, the first thing I’ll do is get up from the piano – completely mindlessly – and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.”

— Sara Bareilles

53. “I’m of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.”

— Sara Bareilles

54. “The melancholy that cracked open that night would eventually become something I’m deeply fond of, but we never know which monsters under the bed will become our friends, do we?”

— Sara Bareilles

55. “I got really into rock – soft, romantic rock was my jam.”

— Sara Bareilles

56. “I’m a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.”

— Sara Bareilles

57. “Things evolve into other things. Emotions do the same. Forever. Your best ally in all of these shifting seas is your faith in the fact that you are exactly where you are supposed to be.”

— Sara Bareilles

58. “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.”

— Sara Bareilles

59. “You are exactly where you belong, and your tender heart is precious.”

— Sara Bareilles

60. “I think we’re at a really rich and fertile time in the zeitgeist about paying attention to diversity of all kinds – racial diversity, gender diversity, making room for a continuum that is more inclusive.”

— Sara Bareilles

61. “I work a lot with men, and I work with wonderful men that I absolutely adore, but it’s something that I’m now paying attention to – to seek out and make room for the talented women in all the technical fields and creative fields across the board.”

— Sara Bareilles

62. “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.”

— Sara Bareilles

63. “I’m happy to be working with all women.”

— Sara Bareilles

64. “There are so many wonderful classic roles, but I also would be really interested in developing something brand new. I think my heart would probably be in developing something brand new; I think that sounds really exciting.”

— Sara Bareilles

65. “I’m grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.”

— Sara Bareilles

66. “It’s very exciting to be a part of a team of collaborators in general.”

— Sara Bareilles

67. “We’re all stronger than we know, and we’re all meant to leave a legacy.”

— Sara Bareilles

68. “My request was for courage. To turn and face the thing that scares you the most and do your best to stay there. I asked for honesty, which sometimes requires more strength than most things we do in our lives.”

— Sara Bareilles

69. “You hold me without touch, keep me without chains, never wanted anything so much, then to drown in your love, and not feel your rain.”

— Sara Bareilles

70. “Relax. Everyone is going to love you! Just get out of your own way.”

— Sara Bareilles

71. “By treating the mistake with so little weight, it actually became weightless.”

— Sara Bareilles

72. “I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.”

— Sara Bareilles

73. “I hope these essays have been comforting to someone reading it if for no other reason than to watch me openly admit I have no idea what I’m doing. I suspect most people feel that way, even if they don’t fess up.”

— Sara Bareilles

74. “My personal best seems the most accessible to me when I am being as honest as I can be. At this point in my life, I am attempting to make choices that move me toward what feels authentic, while saying yes to things that make my gut feel spooked with possibility.”

— Sara Bareilles

75. “You are defending some unnamed territory inside of you that houses what’s true. It exhausts you and burns you out.”

— Sara Bareilles

76. “Surrender is a healing sentiment to return to, and in the end, I’m glad that my heart was launched into the air by a careless kid, because I was gifted the opportunity of learning how to heal it once it hit the ground.”

— Sara Bareilles

77. “I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they’ll have me. I think I want to stay really open to whatever possibilities present themselves.”

— Sara Bareilles

78. “You are learning empathy, and what it feels like to be left out. This is going to make you want to be the kind of person who makes room for people who feel like outsiders, and it’s going to serve you well. It’s going to guide you toward people who love you for who you are, so hang in there. Trust me that things are moving in the right direction.”

— Sara Bareilles

79. “She connects me to my deepest truth and says things I don’t always feel the courage to say in my own life.”

— Sara Bareilles

80. “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

81. “Good stuff gets worse and bad stuff gets better, so you’re better off to spend a little time making friends with all of it.”

— Sara Bareilles

82. “I was struck by what kept her in place, her fear of hurting him. It reminded me of my own darkest moments, waking up one day, looking around, and not recognizing your own self, because you have given too much of that away.”

— Sara Bareilles

83. “So you dare tell me who to be.”

— Sara Bareilles

84. “My emotional world imploded, and there is nothing that could have been said or done to make it easier. No one was in the wrong, and maybe that is what made it so painful. I wanted someone to blame, but instead got the two people I loved most doing their best to navigate uncharted waters.”

— Sara Bareilles