Erykah Badu Quotes

I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy,why not make up happy shit?

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

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

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables,It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

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.

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...

As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me m...

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...

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 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 co...

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.

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

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you

Music and the music business are two different things.

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.

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.

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