Lauryn Hill Quotes
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We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.
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We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.
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It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!
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The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone, the soft caress of happiness, the way you walk, your style of dress, I wish I didn't get so weak, oh baby just to hear you speak, makes me argue just to see how much your in love with me
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I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.
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Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.
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Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
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Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.
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I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.
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I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.
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In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.
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Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.
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Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
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In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.
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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.
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.
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For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!
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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.
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Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all
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I like a brother that cuts to the chase.
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Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
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I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.