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.

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.

It just works better for me to discriminate between which thoughts are mine and which come from elsewhere, before I even talk about them or express them - it helps to keep me focused on my path.

What 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.

In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’

Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.