Lauryn Hill Quotes - Page 4

Never underestimate those who you scar.

Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.

I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

Let optimists rule the world.

It's funny how money change a situation.

I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.

Real religion is no religion at all.

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.

I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change then the rain soon come. See, you might win some, but you just lost one.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.