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" A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live. "

Sarah McLachlan

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless. "

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

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" When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly. "

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" Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them. "

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" When you're making music or playing a song, I find the moments when there are no instruments being played even stronger than when they are being played. Because they add tension. It's also an ego-less thing - a place where you have no ego - when you're with a bunch of musicians who stop and listen instead. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it. "

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" I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally. "

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" I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else. "

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" If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be 'Angel.' Without fail, I absolutely love singing it. "

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

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" Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it. "

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

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" 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. "

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" On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a much more profound way that we all are a global community and we all have to band to try and give the children of our this generation whatever tools we can to go out into this world and try and make it a better place. "

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" 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. "

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" It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions. "

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