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 does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

I'm more like an oven than a microwave.

Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being.