You don't have to believe everything you think.

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.

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.

I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.

My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

I'm only in competition with my last level.