Sarah McLachlan Quotes

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

"They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly."

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

"You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who whisper your name, do they fill up the emptiness? Larger that life is your fiction, in a universe made upon one."

"And he's a fantastic guy. He's a great musician and he's a joy to be around."

"Deep within I'm shaken by the violence Of existing for only youI know I can't be with youI do what I have to do."

"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."

"Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water."

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

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

"We asked all sorts of people from all different walks of music and this is who we got this year, who said yes. I think music crosses barriers and boundaries. If it's good, it's good. We're after good music."

"Trying to force creativity is never good."

"I love 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 a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence."

"Nothing outside of my child is important."

"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."

"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 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."