Quotes By Sarah McLachlan

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

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

Nothing outside of my child is important.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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