Top 149 Quotes & Sayings by Sarah McLachlan
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.
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 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'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything.
Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.
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 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.
We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.
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.
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.
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.
We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
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.
It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.
They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.
I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.
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 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.
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.
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.
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'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.
Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
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.
My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.
I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city.
I'm not online. I'm not on Facebook much. I don't connect that way.
I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.
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 don't think about what other people want from me.
It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.
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 write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
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've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.
I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.
I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded.
When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.
When I sing, it's just... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.
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.
Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.
Nothing outside of my child is important.
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.
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 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've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to.
I play piano every day.
I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.
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.
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 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.
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.
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