We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited. Lauryn Hill More Quotes by Lauryn Hill More Quotes From Lauryn Hill I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else. Lauryn Hill back-together painful together I had an economic system imposed on me. Lauryn Hill economic-systems economic I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart. Lauryn Hill smart heart baby I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success. Lauryn Hill mountain car people Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there. Lauryn Hill breathing practice attention I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy Lauryn Hill moxie cocky block 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. Lauryn Hill addiction creative thinking Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family. Lauryn Hill strong blessed giving Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying. Lauryn Hill ships littles trying Now the skies could fall Lauryn Hill boss sky fall I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you'll reap in abundance. Lauryn Hill work-ethic important thinking I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others. Lauryn Hill manipulation forgiving people I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little. Lauryn Hill guitar littles needs We call ourselves creators and we just copy. Lauryn Hill creator copies In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out. Lauryn Hill influential-people influential people I believe God will make a way. Lauryn Hill gods-will believe way Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. Lauryn Hill female growing-up america 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. Lauryn Hill broken-heart hurt letting-go I never did anything I'm really ashamed of. Lauryn Hill ashamed 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! Lauryn Hill role-models children people
