Quotes By Sarah McLachlan

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

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

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.

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 play piano every day.

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

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.

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

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

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

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

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.

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

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Nothing outside of my child is important.

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.