Sarah McLachlan's Quotes

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

I was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky, unpopular teenager and there was about 400 people smiling and dancing to what we were doing.

I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a much more profound way that we all are a global community and we all have to band to try and give the children of our this generation whatever tools we can to go out into this world and try and make it a better place.

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

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.

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

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

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

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

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.

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

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

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

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.

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

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

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

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.