Top 90 Sarah McLachlan Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Through this world I’ve stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.”

— Sarah McLachlan

52. “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.”

— Sarah McLachlan

53. “I try so hard to live in the moment – I don’t think ahead very much.”

— Sarah McLachlan

54. “I’ve learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.”

— Sarah McLachlan

55. “I think one of the most important things, that this album is for me, and this period in my life, is about gratitude. About recognizing all of the things, daily, that I’m grateful for, and there are many in my life. I’m just so blessed, and I try to carry that with me every day.”

— Sarah McLachlan

56. “I’ve heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don’t quite know what that means.”

— Sarah McLachlan

57. “I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that’s plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.”

— Sarah McLachlan

58. “I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you’re left with a whole bunch of illusions.”

— Sarah McLachlan

59. “Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.”

— Sarah McLachlan

60. “I’m a closet Backstreet Boys fan. They’re very sweet.”

— Sarah McLachlan

61. “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.”

— Sarah McLachlan

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

— Sarah McLachlan

63. “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.”

— Sarah McLachlan

64. “It’s a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.”

— Sarah McLachlan

65. “Trying to force creativity is never good.”

— Sarah McLachlan

66. “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.”

— Sarah McLachlan

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

— Sarah McLachlan

68. “I’m an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.”

— Sarah McLachlan

69. “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.”

— Sarah McLachlan

70. “I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there’s nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.”

— Sarah McLachlan

71. “We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.”

— Sarah McLachlan

72. “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.”

— Sarah McLachlan

73. “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

74. “Nothing outside of my child is important.”

— Sarah McLachlan

75. “It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed.”

— Sarah McLachlan

76. “I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.”

— Sarah McLachlan

77. “I’ve been so busy I haven’t had a chance to go crazy. I don’t party like I used to.”

— Sarah McLachlan

78. “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 didnt.”

— Sarah McLachlan

79. “Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.”

— Sarah McLachlan

80. “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.”

— Sarah McLachlan

81. “I don’t court paparazzi. I definitely don’t like that part of it.”

— Sarah McLachlan

82. “I’m not a media darling. I’m not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.”

— Sarah McLachlan

83. “I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.”

— Sarah McLachlan

84. “I’ve never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.”

— Sarah McLachlan

85. “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.”

— Sarah McLachlan

86. “I don’t think about what other people want from me.”

— Sarah McLachlan

87. “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.”

— Sarah McLachlan

88. “I was a pretty insecure kid, didn’t have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.”

— Sarah McLachlan

89. “I’m a great mummy. I’ve mapped out all the fun spots in every city.”

— Sarah McLachlan

90. “I will rememeber you. Will you remember me? Don’t let your life pass you by and don’t forget all your memories.”

— Sarah McLachlan