Quotes by Sarah McLachlan

• Nothing outside of my child is important.
• I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.
• I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.
• I don't think about what other people want from me.
• I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.
• I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to.
• 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.
• It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
• The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
• They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.
• 'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
• 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.
• Trying to force creativity is never good.
• Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.
• We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.
• We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
• 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 write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
• 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've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.
• I play piano every day.
• 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'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.
• I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.
• I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
• 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.
• Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
• Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
• Success isn’t about having everything you need but using everything you have in the best way possible.
• You can't have everything, but you can have anything—just not all at once!