Lauryn Hill Quotes - Page 7

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.

If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.

I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

I like a brother that cuts to the chase.

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.

Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.

So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone.

I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.

With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.

The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile...

We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.