Sarah McLachlan

“I play piano every day.”

“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.”

“I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always half full.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing anything exciting.”

“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 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.”

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

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

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

“Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.”

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

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

“We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.”