The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don't get a chance. Now there's a lot of other people like myself, indeed, who are getting heard worldwide. That gives other artists a chance.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

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.

When you're performing, you're creating a moment.

My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.