We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

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

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

My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.

I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

Everyday is another chance to get things right.

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.