Latest Rachael Yamagata Quotes from Interviews

• What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Games, Joy, Trying

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• People who know my music think I'm the most depressed girl on the planet.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Girl, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Trying, Problem, Conflict

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I immediately target sadness and conflict and disruption in life.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Sadness, Target, Conflict

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Song, Writing, Hours

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I once heard someone doing a karaoke version of my song. That was pretty funny.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Song, Karaoke, Heard

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I don't really usually write sort of a cheerleader-type lyric.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Writing, Cheerleader, Type

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Party, School, College

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I do have faith that something better is always coming for you.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Have Faith, Something Better

• I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Hopeless, Reason, Bigs

• If you hold on to certain things that are comfortable and maybe a bad pattern for you psychologically, then you rob yourself of the experience of the next thing that happens when you do start to let go. It's only by trusting that, and by the leaps of faith, that you remember that's true.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Letting Go, Leap Of Faith, Patterns

• As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start to see the lovely hilarity of life. Things that were once so crushing take on a different essence. I move through it at a faster rate. It's like traveling: it opens my eyes. My process is to allow myself to have it and to not judge myself or the situation too much, and then to create something with it.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Crush, Pain, Moving

• There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Pain, Feelings, Needs

• It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I get attention for it, whether it's on stage or in life - I have sort of a love-hate relationship with all of it. That makes me feel really stark naked.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Song, Hate, Naked

• Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Pain, Creative, Embrace

• Hopefully, my tears are worth something to the outside world.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Tears, World, Hopefully

• In love relationships, there's such intimacy, and the potential to be the most vulnerable and honest and raw with another person. Why can't we have that transparency with everyone in our lives and reach that higher connection?

  Rachael Yamagata

  Love Relationship, Connections, Honest

• My own brain. When I get it out of the way, I'm fine.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Brain, Way, Fine

  Interview with Monica Melsness, nicheandnook.com. November 3, 2015.

• Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Writing, Sharks, Water

  Interview with Monica Melsness, nicheandnook.com. November 3, 2015.

• Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Running, Stories

  "Award-winning Musician Rachael Yamagata: Gratitude for Mornings, Music, and Mom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Love could solve everything.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Solve

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, nicheandnook.com. November 3, 2015.

• Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Instinct, Diplomacy, Handle

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, nicheandnook.com. November 3, 2015.

• I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Morning, Coffee, Up Early

  "Award-winning Musician Rachael Yamagata: Gratitude for Mornings, Music, and Mom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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