As Painful As This Thing Has Been

From The First Time Someone Says, Who Do You Think You Are? We Learn How To Repress.

Let Me Be Patient, Let Me Be Kind, Make Me Unselfish, Without Being Blind.

Being Young And Female In America, You Watch A Lot Of Tv And You Grow Up On False Images Of What Love Truly Is.

My Mother Has All My Awards, Because If I Walked Downstairs Every Day And Saw All My Achievements It Would Be So Easy To Become Complacent.

I'm Trying To Open Up My Range And Really Sing More. With The Fugees Initially, And Even With 'miseducation,' It Was Very Hip-hop - Always A Singing Over Beats. I Don't Think People Have Really Heard Me Sing Out. So If I Do Record Again, Perhaps It Will Have An Expanded Context. Where People Can Hear A Bit More.