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  • 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 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've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.

  • Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.

  • 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. Smoke and mirrors.

  • 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.

  • There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.

  • Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

  • I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective. You're this tiny speck in a huge environment, and it's nice to be reminded of that.

  • I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

  • I've never dieted in my life; I like food too much. I'm just thoughtful about what I eat, and I'm lucky that I love the taste of vegetables. I'm certainly not 'actress skinny,' and I never will be. I'm strong, and my body works great for me.

  • 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.

  • The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It's just this, ah. I'm in the moment. I'm part of this beautiful world, and it's fantastic, and I don't really know how else to describe it.

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

  • 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.

  • In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine.

  • Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

  • My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

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

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

  • If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be 'Angel.' Without fail, I absolutely love singing it.

  • When you're making music or playing a song, I find the moments when there are no instruments being played even stronger than when they are being played. Because they add tension. It's also an ego-less thing - a place where you have no ego - when you're with a bunch of musicians who stop and listen instead.

  • Running is very rhythmic, and I have written a lot of lyrics while out running. It's a very musical exercise, and sometimes I like to sing when I run. Your whole body is doing the same thing.

  • Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water.

  • 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 a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

  • 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.

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

  • A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live.

  • I play piano every day.

  • With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.

  • I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

  • 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 don't think about what other people want from me.

  • Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

  • I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.

  • I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light And I will remember you Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by Weep not for the memories

  • I'm a closet Backstreet Boys fan. They're very sweet

  • 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.

  • My love, you know you are my best friend . You know that I'd do anything for you, and my love, let nothing come between us. My love for you is strong and true.

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

  • I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

  • We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

  • Everybody loves you when you're easy, so don't disappoint them.

  • I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.

  • Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

  • 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 don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and light. And that we are part of everything as everything is part of us.

  • If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.

  • You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.

  • I love [that] you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near... I believe this is heaven to no one else but me.

  • I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because I was either too feminist or not feminist enough, depending on who you spoke to.

  • Oh darkness, I feel like letting go.

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

  • 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'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.

  • 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'll answer anything... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble.

  • There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing anything exciting.

  • Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.

  • I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

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

  • The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band.

  • Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

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

  • 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 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 have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.

  • People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

  • 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.

  • For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that something you've created and put out there in the world has had some sort of impact on other people's lives.

  • There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

  • 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.

  • All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.

  • And it's hard at the end of the day

  • Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind.

  • Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight

  • Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

  • Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.

  • Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.

  • Hold on...Hold on to yourself. This is going to hurt like hell.

  • I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me...

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

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

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

  • I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

  • I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.

  • 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.

  • I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

  • I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

  • I will be the answer at the end of the line. I will be there for you. Why take the time? In the burning of uncertainty, I will be your solid ground. I, I will hold the balance if you can't look down. If it takes my whole life, I won't break. I won't bend. It will all be worth it, worth it in the end because I can only tell you what I know, that I need you in my life. When the stars have all gone out you'll still be burning so bright.

  • I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by and don't forget all your memories.

  • 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 I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

  • I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

  • In the arms of the angel, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent reverie, you're in the arms of the angel, may you find some comfort here...

  • It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed.

  • 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

  • It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees.

  • I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me. Might not be right for you, but it's right for me.

  • Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

  • Listen as the wind blows From across the great divide Voices trapped in yearning Memories trapped in time

  • 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 didnt.

  • Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.

  • Peace in the struggle to find peace.. comfort on the way to comfort. And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I won't fear love. And if I feel a rage I won't deny it. (I won't fear love.

  • So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn There's vultures and thieves at your back The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies That you make up for all that you lack. It don't make no difference, escaping one last time It's easier to believe In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness That brings me to my knees.

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

  • The more we take, the less we become.

  • The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.

  • Theres beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, thats harder than others.

  • Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.

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

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