I probably should have gone away and lived by myself for a while, but I was really happy to be home. So that slowed down the process a bit. I was just enjoying life and thinking that there was no rush to write the album. AB: Will you be doing an extended tour with your daughter? SM: Oh, yes! I bring her everywhere with me. I couldn't live with it otherwise.
I'm doing a full tour of North America in the summer. We're getting a custom tour bus with a crib and everything. AB: That's probably pretty different from the tours you've done before! SM: Very. That's one of my biggest challenges -- to try to do everything I want and need to do to promote Afterglow and make it a success, but still be a real hands-on mom too. I've had the luxury of being a hands-on mom for 18 months.
I had never been away from her for a day. But just the other day was my first time away from her for 24 hours. I was in New York, then I flew to San Francisco overnight, did a gig in the morning and got right back on the plane and came back to Chicago.
I was very happy to see her. SM: Well, now that her dad [Ashwin] and I are working, I have a nanny who is actually a Montessori school teacher, which is fantastic. So she's totally tuned in to children and knows what they like. She's awesome with her. She takes her out to the zoo and they find playgrounds. Whenever we're in a city we do some research beforehand, and find out if there's a kids' science museum or a zoo to take her to.
AB: Are you finding it hard to make time for her now that you're back working? SM: I was really worried about it because the schedule is pretty grueling with all the travel. But the way it's worked out I've been able to. I get up with her every morning, spend the first couple of hours with her, put her down for a nap, go out to work and come back in the afternoon.
She is still napping twice. I have dinner with her almost every night and put her down at I've been able to spend almost as much time with her as I do at home.
AB: So, here's a personal question. The words to "Perfect Girl" are very poignant for me, but I'm reading them and I'm thinking, how can somebody like you have any insecurities? I know you're a regular person, but I mean, what is it that you're worried about?
SM: To be honest, that song didn't start out about me. It was about a friend of mine going through a really hard breakup and just not being able to let it go. But, as songs often begin about somebody else, often my own personal experience gets dragged in there.
I was incredibly insecure, as a teenager especially, and even as a young adult. Especially as far as men. I made some really, really stupid choices. SM: Yeah, you know, I like the bad boys. Or just the idiots, basically, because I didn't have much confidence in myself. AB: So you did the settling-for-less until someone snapped you out of it? AB: Let's talk about your philanthropic work.
What made you switch your focus to kids after working on Lilith Fair and doing so much on the feminist front? She sings,. And even those whose parents are still alive can empathize with that feeling of being lost and alone in a too-big and often scary world. And I absolutely felt that from him. Her sadness is palpable, but it also seems that losing her father helped her to develop a deeper understanding of — and a deeper gratitude for — the ways in which he shaped her life.
My whole family gathered. I wrote his name out in the sand and then we all walked out in the water and spread his ashes. Afterwards, I went out swimming with him. Everyone else went into the house, then the fog rolled in so you couldn't tell sea from sky, and I just went in and swam. After her father's death, McLachlan turned her attention to her two daughters. They, too, were suffering from the loss.
She'll say 'I miss Grandpa. At least two of the new songs, "Beautiful Girl" and "Turn the Lights Down Low" are written about her relationship with her children.
The album is not all about loss, though. One of its strongest tracks, "Flesh and Blood," seethes with new-found passion, presumably with Courtnall. He's got so much integrity and he's got such a strong work ethic. He's kind. He cares for people and he's so funny. And, yeah, he's pretty yummy. In the liner notes, she writes: "To Geoff, who showed me how wonderful it is to love again.
Although the latter category has been fruitful fodder for pop songs as long as the genre has existed, it's the former themes that McLachlan felt were particularly rich. I survive and endure. That was the idea behind the album title," she said. We're in the second half of our lives now. It's kind of the time where you really assess where your life has been and how you want the rest of it to look. For me and the people I know and care about, we all want to live every day as best we can, with as much passion and integrity as we can, and shine.
I don't want to just be. Look at how many relationships fail. We don't get to this age unscathed," she said. It's just all the struggles Although "Laws of Illusion" couldn't match her platinum-stacking commercial heyday of 20 years ago -- when 's "Surfacing" went diamond in Canada, and hits "Afterglow" and "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" each went five times platinum -- McLachlan makes the convincing case that she's never paid much attention to the charts. Though she acknowledges she was perturbed by the recent suggestion that "Shine On" represented her "comeback," saying with a laugh: "I didn't realize I went anywhere.
She's already deemed the "labour of love" album a success regardless of its sales. Well, she can't necessarily rely on her two daughters for creative validation. Approaching seven and 12 years old, the girls have arrived at an age where they have opinions on McLachlan's work and they're not always positive. But over time, her new material began to feel a little old to those closest to her.
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