Erykah Badu Quotes

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  • 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 had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.

    Teacher   Art   Children  
  • I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

    "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.
  • I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.

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

    "Talkin’ Knotty with Erykah Badu: A Super Natural". Interview, www.knottyandnice.org. November 23, 2011.
  • If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.

    Hip Online Interview, hiponline.com. January 22, 2001.
  • Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one

    Two  
  • I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

    Artist  
  • Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

  • 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.

  • I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.

    Source: alexmacpherson.tumblr.com
  • I have a Pinterest, and if you look there you'll see the things I really like and adore, have crushes on, and there's a lot of stuff from Riccardo's [Tisci] line on there.

  • I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.
  • ...When it come to da: " What it do?! I don't fall for da: "Woop- TeE- WoOoo!

  • I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.

    Artist  
    "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.
  • He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.

  • 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.

    World  
  • [Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.

  • Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

    "Song: “The Healer”". 2008.
  • I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

  • Some people come up and ask for an autograph and don't even look at me. They're like, 'Here, do it.' That don't bother me, but it doesn't open my heart.

    Hip Online Interview, hiponline.com. January 22, 2001.
  • 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.

  • I bring the staple of my culture.

  • I'm pretty mutable as a human being.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

    Two  
  • My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.

  • Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t

    Artist  
  • I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

    Artist   World  
  • I could do a few more sit-ups and my waistline would be less difficult.

  • I don't know if I'll ever accomplish most of my dreams - I have so many.

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    Erykah Badu

    • Born: February 26, 1971
    • Occupation: Singer-songwriter