Sara Quin Quotes

I think that bad drama in a relationship has nothing to do with the individuals, it just really has to do with the dynamic that those individuals create.

This next song is about when you get your heart broken and you try your best to glue it back together and you wake up one morning and you're so happy because you realize, Oh my God, the tape's holding!

In the back of your car I feel like I have traveled nowhere.

I won't mistake you for problems with me. I won't let my moods ruin this you'll see. I won't take everything good and move it away. I won't be left dancing along to songs from the past.

I miss you now, I guess like I should have missed you then.

I can't untangle, I can't untangle what I feel and what would matter most.

Maybe I just stay in relationships for too long and then they get really dramatic.

Go (please stay), Go (please stay), Go if you want to,I can't stop you. Just go if you want to I can't stop you.

Audience member: Living Room!
Sara: Kitchen

The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate.

Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.

We're queer, but music doesn't have a sexuality. Even if it was more clearly written to women, I still think that music is still just music.

I live my life in a way that I feel completely comfortable with. I don't struggle with who I am, who I date, who I love, what I say or what I stand for, not just sexuality but everything.

Around this world will I be enough?
From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama blues
I am nothing if I'm not with you.

I have a tendency, not that anyone I've ever dated I thought wasn't a good person, but sometimes you're not always a good match.

And I never wanted Tegan to not get what I was gonna get. It's something that goes very, very much back to a very deep childhood place. She was the most important person to me, and probably at some point developmentally, I couldn't even detach she was something separate from me.

I always say that if I end up in a relationship where I feel like seventy-five percent of what I was looking for is there, then I've already won, then we're all winners in that relationship.

I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone.

Short on all the things I don't want, I'm full of love and longing. Take me by the hand and tell me, you would take me anywhere.

So you fake and you flaw, for your cops and your cause. It makes no difference to me. It's love that you stole, that you stole.

And the more I started to think of our relationship as a success and less as a dysfunctional fuck-fest, I was basically like. Yeah, sometimes I do want to punch Tegan, but 99.9 times out of 100, I don't.

I look into the mirror for evil that just does not exist.

Sometimes it feels what I recovered you lost, sending your peaceful loss to me.

Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest.

An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.

Although we are Canadian, we have both vowed to remain unmarriad in solidarity with the millions who don't have the same rights as us around the world.

Now I'm all messed up sick inside wondering who's life your making worth while.

I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.

I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart. I want to give directions, helpful hints. What you'll be looking for.

I know how I was born and I know that I have no choice. I know it may not show on the color of my skin, but I know it's in my heart and in my soul.

I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I'm like loving a raincloud.

I close my eyes I make myself unhappy so you'll go. Without me, oh what's wrong with you?

Unnerved, the nerve, you're nervous, nervous that I'm right.

I have always felt this
And I, I could never hear it
So I turned it up
And turned it on
And turned it down
Always the volume always the words

Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly.

I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I'll hold, I'll hold. I know.

On the drive back here I was worrying over nothing. On the drive back there tears spilling over something.

Freedom and blood I make my mark and fight for tomorrow. Finally I've got something, Something I can raise my voice for. Fine, tell them who you really want. Fine, well you'll get yours and I'll get mine.

I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't.

This is me before I come undone. This is me before I fall apart. I've been tired for days and days. I've been tired for days and days.

They say you're big before you're small I'm sure glad I don't know it all.

I'm not their hero, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave. I never walked the party line, but that doesn't mean that I was never afraid. I'm not your hero, but that doesn't mean we're not one and the same.

I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.

A letter to send to you and if I forget, or god forbid die too soon, hope that you'll hear me,know that I wrote to you.

All I need is time, time to love you. All I need is time, time to love you, time to love you.

You say you don't see any part of me. To love in all this mess and I know. You take the good and all the bad that comes with me.

Oh, let's tell the world we're unheard. We're unsure.We're unstop, we're unstoppable. Oh let's tell the girls to be strong. To be sure. To be heard. We want to be heard.

I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I dont wanna know. I don't wanna know.

I thought you would never find another love again. Oh, but you haven't missed a thing, no you haven't missed a thing.

Might paint something I might want to hang here someday, might write something I might want to say to you someday, might do something I'd be proud of someday. Mark my words, I might be something someday.

My dad used to open up photo albums and stuff and you'd have to tell a story about the picture but you couldn't tell the truth so you had to make up a story about whatever you were looking at. He really taught us how to lie.

I can't believe I've let you in, and now here I am telling you that I'm suffocating in here.

Stay, you'll leave me in the morning anyway. My heart, you'll cut it out you never liked me anyway.

What will bring me home? What will make me stay, stay? Well I don't know, I don't know.

I've always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I'm not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.

I just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you

I hope I never figure out who broke your heart and if I do, if I do. I'd spend all night losing sleep. I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind. Well I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind.

Dallas Green is basically Canadian royalty.

I am sentimental and a romantic no matter how hard I try to resist those urges.

Fine, tell them who you think you are. Fine, tell them fine is what you are. And when you finally figure out what it is you need, you better think of me.