"I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart."
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"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"
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"I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment."
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"From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself."
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"It's funny how money change a situation."
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"If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!"
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"I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it."
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"My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will."
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"You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice."
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"There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful."
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"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"
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"If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper."
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"I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success."
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"I ran very fast in the wrong direction."
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"I never did anything I'm really ashamed of."
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"God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force."
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"Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!"
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