Erykah Badu Quotes
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Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.
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I'm more like an oven than a microwave.
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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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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.
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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.
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I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time
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Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
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André and I are still best of friends, always have been and always will be. When our 18-year-old son, Seven, started high school, we both agreed to be in the same city, so André is in Dallas all the time, and we're always all together doing something.
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I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell.
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I think that when Riccardo Tisci wanted to bring more attention to the lack of African American presence on the runway, he also wanted to bring attention to the lack of a sensibility of African and Asian art.
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I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.
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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.
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The girls just like to be in the shoes. They like to scuff up the floors and walk around in high-heeled shoes that are too big for them, all over the house.
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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.
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I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
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I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.
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I'm only in competition with my last level.
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I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.
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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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My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure that I knew my role as a young lady and as someone with moral structures and principles. She taught me that if I was going to be involved with anything, whether it be spirituality, music, or some skill, that I have to practice.
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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").
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I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.
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All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.
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I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.