Sara Bareilles was interviewed about her career and upcoming album Good Grief on the Zach Sang Show.
Sara Bareilles considers herself a “vessel” when it comes to her music.
The singer and songwriter was interviewed about her career and upcoming album Good Grief on the Zach Sang Show, when she was asked about writing her famous track Gravity – which Sara admitted felt like a “lifetime ago”.
As she reflected on the inspiration for the tune, Sara opened up about her musical approach as a whole.
She said: “My philosophy really about music, and I’ve said this before, is that it’s not mine. It’s just like the thing I was like the portal; I was like the available channel that that music was looking for to come through.
“I really believe that we’re just vessels, but I’m so proud of that 18-year-old girl to be open to those big feelings and kind of capturing it that way. I think that’s really special.”
Sara added that she wrote Gravity after her ex-boyfriend dumped her, with the now 46-year-old using songwriting as a form of therapy amid her heartbreak.
She mused: “It wasn’t a conscious decision. It was just like I have so much ache, and I don’t know where to put it. Music was always like the receptacle for that. Music was always the place I would go, even just as a listener, to try to make sense of the world.
“Then when I started writing, like really writing, like I wrote since I was pretty young, but when I really started writing, I could feel that there was some kind of catharsis in that, but that I felt better when there was a way to sort of hold it somehow.”
As for what she learned from Gravity, Sara admitted that sharing it with other people was “kind of scary”.
However, she said: “But the affirmation I got around the sharing – because people would relate to it and it was very personal for them – but I was like there’s like a connective thing that happens when you share something that’s quite intimate, in a way that I don’t think I was entirely aware of.”
Sara Bareilles considers herself a musical ‘vessel’
