Erykah Badu Quotes

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.

All of my children are the same way I am. They’re little artists too, in their own ways.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn’t get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

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

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.

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.

I don’t have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

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’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.

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

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.