Quotes from Lauryn Hill

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

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.

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

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.

Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

This life is a process of learning.

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.

I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

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

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.

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.

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.

I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

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.

I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.

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

I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.

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.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.