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

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" I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. 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. "

" I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others. "

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

" 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. "

" Let optimists rule the world. "

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

" Real religion is no religion at all. "

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

" 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. "

" I believe God will make a way. "

" To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me. "

" People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I never did anything I'm really ashamed of. "

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

" 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. "

" That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in. "

" I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture. "

" We call ourselves creators and we just copy. "

" This life is a process of learning. "

" I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic. "

" 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. "

" When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school. "

" 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. "

" What was freely given to me, I freely give. "

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

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

" 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. "