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.
Sara QuinIโve 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. Iโm not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.
Sara QuinThatโs the thing about success and happiness. Every time I fall in love I become absolutely, pathologically obsessed. The moment that you have what you want, and youโre not totally ready for it, you become obsessed with the idea that you donโt deserve it.
Sara QuinAlthough 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.
Sara QuinI just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you
Sara QuinMy 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.
Sara QuinI 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.
Sara QuinI 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.
Sara QuinI 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.
Sara QuinMe being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet itโs terrifying to people and they think youโre a monster.
Sara QuinThis 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!
Sara QuinSometimes 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.
Sara QuinI hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.
Sara QuinI 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.
Sara QuinI 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.
Sara QuinSometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest.
Sara QuinI 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.
Sara Quin