What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.

What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'

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.

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.

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.