Quotes By Sarah McLachlan

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

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

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.

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

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

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

Trying to force creativity is never good.

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

Nothing outside of my child is important.

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.

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

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.