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.
— Sarah McLachlan
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.
'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.
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 big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.
I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.
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 often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
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 go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.
Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
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 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've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.
We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
Trying to force creativity is never good.
Nothing outside of my child is important.
I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.
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 was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.
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 play piano every day.
I don't think about what other people want from me.
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
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 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.
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.
We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.
They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.
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've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to.
I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.
I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.
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 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 don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.
The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
