Erykah Badu Quotes

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.
Erykah Badu

Nothing, Ability, Audience

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.
Erykah Badu

Mind, Person, Through

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
Erykah Badu

Work, Good, Society

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
Erykah Badu

Art, Respect, Hurt

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
Erykah Badu

Respect, Person, Lost

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
Erykah Badu

Religion, Self, Words

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
Erykah Badu

Music, Money, Business

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
Erykah Badu

Life, Love, Religion

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.
Erykah Badu

Great, Enough, America

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
Erykah Badu

Computers, Government, Business

Music and the music business are two different things.
Erykah Badu

Music, Business, Different

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.
Erykah Badu

Work, Nothing, Hard

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

Another, Song, Sounds

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
Erykah Badu

Success, Happen, Knew

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
Erykah Badu

School, Satisfied, Tv

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
Erykah Badu

Men, Black, Philosophy

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
Erykah Badu

Words, Put, Wrong

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
Erykah Badu

Work, Parents, Taught

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
Erykah Badu

Life, Work, Art

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
Erykah Badu

Experience, Times, Artists

Honey isn't really that good for you.
Erykah Badu

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.
Erykah Badu

Hard, Sense, Word

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

Women, Strong, Long

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.
Erykah Badu

Work, Said, Artist

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.
Erykah Badu

Happen, Artist, Knew

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 26, 1971

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