Quotes from Sarah McLachlan

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Being a mother is as beautiful and rewarding as it is painful and devastating. It is the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

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'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 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.