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Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.

How you gone win, when you ain't right within? Uh-uh come again

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.

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.

We 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.

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

Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.

We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.

Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.

I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.

Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent

This life is a process of learning.

Consequence is no coincidence.

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin' at all

We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.

If I should fall asleep and death takes me away,
Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.

I have inner peace. It's a different person.

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

God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to.

God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.

Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

See no one loves you more than me ... and no one ever will

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Real religion is no religion at all.

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

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

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

Now the skies could fall
Not even if my boss should call
The world it seems so very small
'Cause nothing even matters at all

If 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.

I like a brother that cuts to the chase.

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.

Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love?

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.

I believe God will make a way.

I play my enemies like a game of chess

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 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.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity

Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

So while you're imitating Al Capone,
I'll be Nina Simone,
And defacating on your microphone

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

Miscommunication leads to complication.

I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.

It's more important to be righteous than to be right.

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

I get mad when you walk away (don't walk away from me cmon now), so I tell you leave when I mean stay

Never underestimate those who you scar.

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

Everyday is another chance to get things right.

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile.

I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too.

Hip-Hop started out in the heart

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day ...

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

I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.

I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

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

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,

I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.

I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky. Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi.

Let optimists rule the world.

I ran very fast in the wrong direction.

Let's love ourselves, then we can't fail,
To make a better situation.
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow,
All we need is dedication!

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

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

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.

Anything that is not growing is dead.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

Everything is everything
What is meant to be, will be
After winter, must come spring
Change, it comes eventually

The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow