Lauryn Hill

This life is a process of learning.

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.

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

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

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.

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

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.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

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

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

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.