Sara Bareilles was an anxious, empathetic kid whose depression and anxiety got much worse in her early twenties. Starting Lexapro at 46 was a major turning point. Songwriting became how she processed her intense emotions.
When you were a kid, were you pretty indifferent? It's happened a lot more as an adult, and I think because I had a lot of melancholy in my life and some bouts with depression and a lot of anxiety. Did that start in childhood though? Yeah, I think like childhood and early 20s got really bad, and then has been kind of like something I manage. You know, I'm 46 now, and it's just something I manage, my anxiety and depression, although it's gotten a lot better since I got on Lexapro. Which was a major light bulb moment for me. But yeah, no, as a kid I was really tenderhearted, really sensitive, really attuned to people's sadness. Could feel— So very empathetic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which I think is a part of why I turned towards songwriting, is that I was— it was like a place to put all these big feelings and— Work it out. Work it out. Yeah. At least hold them somewhere. Yeah.
