We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.
Erykah BaduBut now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
Erykah BaduWhat 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.
Erykah BaduThrough [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.
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