Erykah Badu Quotes
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I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.
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I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.
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Music and the music business are two different things.
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Things are useless without practice.
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We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.
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I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is
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I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.
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I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.
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I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell.
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Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.
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I'm inspired by Earl Sweatshirt. He's a really honest writer, and he's unusually intelligent.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.
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[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.
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What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.
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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.
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I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
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I have a daughter who's four, who's dainty and princess-esque. I still get to dress her like my little accessory. I think I have one more year to do that, then she's going to get her own ideas - so I better move quickly!
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I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
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When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I've been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It's almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.
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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
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
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I'm more like an oven than a microwave.
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My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.