Erykah Badu Quotes

Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator always gives me the energy.

He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you—the fear just leaves

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 sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.

I go through phases of stuff.

The metal or the stone that's helping me .I'll incorporate them into anything I wear - but I think it's about accessories more than anything, because it's how you accessorize yourself that gives you your own unique style.

In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.

I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.

We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.

I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.

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

Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream