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" Running is very rhythmic, and I have written a lot of lyrics while out running. It's a very musical exercise, and sometimes I like to sing when I run. Your whole body is doing the same thing. "

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" 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

Circle

Kid

Trying

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

" 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 was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky, unpopular teenager and there was about 400 people smiling and dancing to what we were doing. "

" 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. Smoke and mirrors. "

" 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. "

" There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that? "

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

" The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some. "

Sarah McLachlan

Take

Become

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

Sarah McLachlan

Road

Out

" I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Slow

Process

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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

Nothing

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

" I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded. "

" We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves. "

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

Sarah McLachlan

Want

Think

" Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water. "

" 'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song. "

" In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine. "

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