Lauryn Hill Quotes

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.

I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

You're always thinking about making new music.

The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can't quite remember what I'm supposed to be doing with myself.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

[Doing music] is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and you're putting out music you're proud of, it will never feel like work. It'll just feel like love.

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.