Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.

I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.

I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."

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

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.

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.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars