Rachael Yamagata Quotes & Sayings

I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist. — Rachael Yamagata

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

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

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano. — Rachael Yamagata

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

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

Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy. — Rachael Yamagata

I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love — Rachael Yamagata

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

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

Love could solve everything. — Rachael Yamagata

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

My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best ... my very best, I set you free — Rachael Yamagata

I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general. — Rachael Yamagata

I do have faith that something better is always coming for you. — Rachael Yamagata

So for those of you falling in love,
Keep it kind, keep it good, keep it right.
Throw yourself in the midst of danger,
But keep one eye open at night. — Rachael Yamagata

Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks. — Rachael Yamagata

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

Hopefully, my tears are worth something to the outside world. — Rachael Yamagata

Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time. — Rachael Yamagata

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