Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

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!

I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!

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.

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.

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.