Quotes By Sarah McLachlan

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Trying to force creativity is never good.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.