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" I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything. "

Sarah McLachlan

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" Nothing outside of my child is important. "

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

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

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

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" I don't think about what other people want from me. "

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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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" 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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" My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band. "

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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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