Sarah McLachlan Quotes

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep...standing on the edge of something much too deep...funny how I feel so much but cannot say a word...we are screaming inside, oh, but we can't be heard...so afraid to love you, more afraid to lose...clinging to a past.

The night is my companion...solitude my guide....and I would be the one to hold you down, kiss you so hard, I'll take your breath away...my body aches to breathe your breath, your words keep me alive.

In the lonely light of morning, in a world that would not heal, it's the bitter taste of losing everything that I've held so dear.

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

The winter here's cold and bitter, it's chilled us to the bone. We haven't seen the sun for weeks, too long too far from home. I feel just like I'm sinking, and I claw for solid ground. I'm pulled down by the undertow, I never thought I could feel so.

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

Why are there so many songs about ravens, and what's on the other side? Rainbows are visions, but only illusions. Rainbows have nothing to hide.

Mother can't you see 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...

Dear God, Sorry to disturb you, but I feel that I should be heard loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in the amount of tears. And all the people that you made in your image, See them fighting in the street 'Cause they can't make opinions meet.

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.

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

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.

Everybody loves you when you're easy. . .Everybody hates when you're a bore. . .Everyone is waiting for your entrance, so don't disappoint them.

I Will Remember You.

I'm a bit of a control freak. I think it would be difficult for me to give it up because my name is so associated with it.

I'm in total savoring mode. I wish I had something like this when I was growing up.

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.

We plan to have three years and try not to repeat artists in the same marketplaces. I have a hard time thinking of what's going be going on next week, much less two years from now. We're going to sit down after '99 and reassess things, probably take a year off.

I have to sort of get myself back out there and this is sort of out of the frying pan into the fire.

I'll Say I'm Sorry Now.

The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from.

I thought, 'Well, why don't I get some of the women who I've had open up for me before and some artists that I really admire and respect. Let's ask them to do a few shows.'.

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 always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.

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