Lauryn Hill

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow

Now the skies could fall _x000D_ Not even if my boss should call _x000D_ The world it seems so very small _x000D_ 'Cause nothing even matters at all

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again

The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

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.

See no one loves you more than me...and no one ever will

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

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

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there.

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

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.