Sarah McLachlan Quotes
Top 97 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sarah McLachlan
Sarah McLachlan Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.
I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.
I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.
If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.
It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.
You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?
I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.
There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing anything exciting.
I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.
I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me. Might not be right for you, but it's right for me.
We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.
Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.
With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.
You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.
Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.
We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.
Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.
I think ... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.
I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.
It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.
And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.
I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.
I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.
I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.
I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.
If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be 'Angel.' Without fail, I absolutely love singing it.
Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.
Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight
I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.
Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.
'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.