For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.
Lauryn HillIf I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.
Lauryn HillLet me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got
Lauryn HillWe 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.
Lauryn HillI think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
Lauryn HillMy 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.
Lauryn Hill