Erykah Badu Quotes

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.

What I like about houses like Givenchy. It's easy to pull from. With Givenchy you can accessorize to build anything, any look.

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.

I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.

Some people come up and ask for an autograph and don't even look at me. They're like, 'Here, do it.' That don't bother me, but it doesn't open my heart.

Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.

I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.

...When it come to da: " What it do?! I don't fall for da: "Woop- TeE- WoOoo!

I'm pretty mutable as a human being.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

I have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform - every night, you know.

I go through phases of stuff.

I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.

I bring the staple of my culture.

My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.

I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.

My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.

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

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.

My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do in a fashion sense.

All the women in my family were very creative.

Things are useless without practice.

I solidify his [ Riccardo Tisci] vision and what he is trying to manifest, make it a crystal or solid thing because of the relationship I have with my culture and what my music means to him.

My nine-year-old daughter is very creative and colorful and trendy.

I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").

[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.

I thought it was cool how [ Riccardo Tisci] wanted to blend Africa and Asia because they relate to each other in so many different ways.

In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.

I'm inspired by Earl Sweatshirt. He's a really honest writer, and he's unusually intelligent.

I could do a few more sit-ups and my waistline would be less difficult.

I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.

I don't know if I'll ever accomplish most of my dreams - I have so many.

I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.

Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.

If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.

What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

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

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen

Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.