I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.

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

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

Through [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.

What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.

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 made me feel, that's completion.

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.