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. Lauryn Hill Read Quote
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. Lauryn Hill Read Quote
I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn’t forgive others. Lauryn Hill Read Quote
I wouldn’t even hold my kids sometimes because I didn’t want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show. Lauryn Hill Read Quote
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? Lauryn Hill Read Quote
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. Lauryn Hill Read Quote
When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family. Lauryn Hill Read Quote
I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Lauryn Hill Read Quote
