What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

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.

I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.