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Musician Sara Bareilles talks about the importance of crying in her life
On Wild Card, famous guests answer questions that we don't always talk about. Musician Sara Bareilles talks about the importance of crying in her life.
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UNITED STATES: On Wild Card, famous guests answer questions that we don't always talk about. Musician Sara Bareilles talks about the importance of crying in her life.
Each week, a guest draws a card from NPR's Wild Card deck and answers a big question about their life. Sara Bareilles is out with a new album and documentary, both titled "Good Grief." The project is partly about processing the deaths of two of her close friends. Bareilles talked with Wild Card host Rachel Martin about her relationship to crying.
RACHEL MARTIN: When's a time you realized you were on the right path?
SARA BAREILLES: Like, I wrote this book of essays called "Sounds Like Me." And it was so hard. And I sort of hated writing this book. But I started doing this practice where I was writing letters to myself at different ages.
BAREILLES: And it was so profound. It was so profound to really sit with the sense of myself at age 12 and at age 22 and the things that change and the things that stay the same in that kind of, like, wrestling with am I enough? That, it just, like, takes different forms over our life I think. But, I was sitting in the lobby of the Marlton Hotel when, I had my laptop there, and I was, like, just crying. Like, so self important. (Laughter) I just cry all my wisdom.
BAREILLES: But that's what, you know, that is actually something that happens to me. Like, I will, like, spontaneously start weeping if I kind of hit something that feels...
BAREILLES: ...Especially true or especially resonant.
This Bay News report is based on originating coverage from NPR.