Sarah McLachlan Quotes

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've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.

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 can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

Hold on ... Hold on to yourself. This is going to hurt like hell.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

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.

I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded.

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.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

The more we take, the less we become.

You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?

The night is my companion, and solitude my guide

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

Oh darkness, I feel like letting go.

There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing anything exciting.

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you ...

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

I don't think about what other people want from me.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

I'll answer anything ... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble.

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 believe this is Heaven to no one else but me ...

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to.

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.

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.

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.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city.

I'm not online. I'm not on Facebook much. I don't connect that way.

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.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.

Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried.

Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.

You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here.

I'm a closet Backstreet Boys fan. They're very sweet

I play piano every day.

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.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water.

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Everybody loves you when you're easy, so don't disappoint them.

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.

Nothing outside of my child is important.

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.

And it's hard at the end of the day

A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live.

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.

Your love is just the antidote when nothing else can cure me.

We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.

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.

You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything.

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.

I think ... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.

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.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.

I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.

Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind.

You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

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.

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.

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 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 have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.

It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed.

When I sing, it's just ... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

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.