This episode of Dinners on Me was recorded on June 14, 2003.

Hi, it's Jesse.

Today on the show, you've seen her on Girls Five Eva and on Broadway in Waitress, Sarah Borellis.

We'll talk about growing up feeling like outsiders and her

a cappella group at UCLA that sounds like real-life pitch-perfect. We had crazy

costumes. We did our hair. We had all this leather and red and like like more is more.

Oh my God. It was just completely embarrassing. This is Dinner's On Me and I'm your host, Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

So music is one of those things that really marks time in your life.

In 2007, I was 32 years old and single.

My first TV job, a sitcom called The Class, had just been canceled, and I was filled with simultaneous hope

for what was next and fear about what was next. My soundtrack for that year was Little Voice, the debut

album of this new artist named Sarah Borellis. Those songs scored that transition year for me,

and to this day, every time I hear love song or gravity, I am immediately transported back to my tiny apartment in Silver Lake, right before I shot the pilot of modern family, right before I met Justin, right before this major chapter of my life was about to begin.

If you told me then that Sarah Borellis and I would

eventually find our way to becoming friends, I wouldn't have believed it. People who can create

music like Sarah does are just, they're unicorns to me. And I was so excited when our schedule's

finally aligned, and we were able to sit down and have a meal together. Hi.

Oh, my God, you matched the curtains.

Isn't that great?

It's so pretty.

Does you feel like you're in, like, photos you for, like, Dwell magazine or something?

Yes.

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