“What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.” PeopleWayFeelsMeanWatchesSingingSingersOne WayJust OneWatch Me Author:Erykah Badu
“I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.” WorldWayChildrenHelpingSpiritEnjoyWelcomePeacefulCommitteesEffortless Author:Erykah Badu
“All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.” WayChildrenLittlesArtistMy Children Author:Erykah Badu
“My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.” PeopleWayWantKindEndsHomePassingPassingsNursingEnd Of LifeNursing HomeHospicePassing OnDoulas Author:Erykah Badu
“I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.” ThinkingWayWantKindArtSpeakToo MuchPiecesExcessClayCommonalityCarving Author:Erykah Badu
“Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.” IfsWayI CanLinesProjectsDucks Author:Erykah Badu
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFeelsTryingKindArtHurtCompromiseAquarius Author:Erykah Badu
“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.” WayWantNeedsKindArtistPaintTherapyMold Author:Erykah Badu
“Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.” PeopleThinkingWayMovingHip HopHipsHopsOpennessWay Of Thinking Author:Erykah Badu
“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.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsLooksMadeI CanStyleHairWrapsCompletion Author:Erykah Badu
“I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.” WayWantTryingBodyCareAbleWinningParentHealthyMy FamilyBlessedBeing The BestAwardsVegetarianSaltBaths Author:Erykah Badu
“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.” WayNeedsArtMovingPiecesFashionPlatformsTake TimeMold Author:Erykah Badu
“Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.” WayMindWellsDifferentInspirationCulturePeriodsMusic IsFoundationDifferent Cultures Author:Erykah Badu
“That's the moment I learned that the more you believe in yourself, the stronger the vibration touches someone else, and things begin to happen the way you dreamed that they would.” WayBelieveMomentsHappensStrongerBelieve In YourselfBelieve In YouVibrationsTouch Someone Author:Erykah Badu
“I thought it was cool how [ Riccardo Tisci] wanted to blend Africa and Asia because they relate to each other in so many different ways.” WayDifferentWantedRelateDifferent WaysAsia Author:Erykah Badu
“I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.” WorldWayArtUseBodyChanceSeeingRiskFashionIntroducingStanding OutTake A ChanceVery InspiringChance And Risk Author:Erykah Badu
“Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is.” WayGovernmentChoicesAngryHipsMake Me Angry Author:Erykah Badu
“Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.” WayCultureMusicBeatsDressesHip HopHipsHopsTop 10 Author:Erykah Badu
