So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.

I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.

So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

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.

If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.