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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.
I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.
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.
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.
Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.
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.
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.
I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself ... The Creator always gives me the energy.
The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.
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.
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
If we were made in his image then call us by our names.
Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same
Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same
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.
Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.
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
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.
I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.
I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
My hair is an aesthetic choice ... At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
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.
What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'
I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.
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.
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.