Quotes By Sarah McLachlan

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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