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Erykah Badu (Musician)

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

— Erykah Badu people

I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.

— Erykah Badu relationships

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

— Erykah Badu help

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

— Erykah Badu light

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

— Erykah Badu art

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

— Erykah Badu world

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.

— Erykah Badu war

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

— Erykah Badu art

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

— Erykah Badu man

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

— Erykah Badu music

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

— Erykah Badu time

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

— Erykah Badu love

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

— Erykah Badu philosophy

Honey isn't really that good for you.

— Erykah Badu good

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

— Erykah Badu women

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

— Erykah Badu world

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

— Erykah Badu life

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

— Erykah Badu music

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

— Erykah Badu music

Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one.

— Erykah Badu life

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

— Erykah Badu work

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

— Erykah Badu religion

Music and the music business are two different things.

— Erykah Badu music

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

— Erykah Badu art

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

— Erykah Badu work

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesnt conform.

— Erykah Badu people

Hip-hop is not something we do, its something we live. Its the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. Its a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 cant dictate that. They can only dictate whats marketable.

— Erykah Badu culture

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