Sarah Quotes

“My bass player came up to me and said, ‘Sarah, when are you going to start being a bitch?’ And I said, ‘That’s why I have a record company.’”

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

“Music is the closest I get to feeling religious. Playing music brings it out in me. It takes me inward and really helps me clear my head and think about what is going on in my life. I hate to use ’soul searching,’ but it is.”

“We’re constantly being told what other people think we are, and that’s why it is so important to know yourself.”

“Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates”

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

“My guideline for success — and this is really, truthfully honest — is whether I am really proud of this record [Afterglow]. If I am proud of the record, which I am, then I let it go. If other people like it, then that’s a big old bonus for me.”

“Time is a beautiful thing. It’s like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don’t look so ugly anymore.”

“We’re constantly being told what other people think we are, and that’s why it is so important to know yourself.”

“If you love large, you’ve got to hurt large. If you’ve got a lot of light, you’ve probably got an equal amount of darkness.”

“It was frustrating. But you know they gave us a choice, a minute-and-a-half or nothing. So we went for the minute-and-a-half, which if anybody had any sense, they would because it’s huge, huge, huge coverage. Everybody was saying, ‘Well, don’t you feel further marginalized by doing this?’ Bottom line is it’s better than a kick in the ass.” – on her short Grammy appearance in 1995

“It was a bit difficult at times. I was soaking wet and freezing most of the time. But I knew it was going to look good, so I went with it.” – on her video for ‘Fallen’