List of Erykah Badu Quotes

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.

They Usually Have A Piano In Every Nursing Home, And I Always Wanted To Perform For Whoever Would Listen When I Learned Something. I Grew To Understand Very Early That A Lot Of These People Who Are In Nursing Homes Are Elderly And Don't Have A Lot Of Things That Give Them Joy From Day To Day.

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.

There Are Millions And Billions Of Atoms Of Memory Of All Kinds Of Musical Themes In Me.

I've Been A Vegetarian Since I Was 19.

What Opens My Heart Is When My Son Wakes Me Up In The Morning, Nudging Me And Saying, 'mommy, Mommy!'

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.

What A Frequency What A Voice. I Love Bilal. I Couldn't Imagine A Music World Without His Voice.

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.

Man, I Don't Want To Have Nothing To Do With Computers. I Don't Want The Government In My Business.

My Truth Is Relevant And My Songs Are Relevant, But I Have To Recalibrate Myself And Speed Up My Vibrations So That I Can Communicate With The Voice Of This Generation.

Whereas I Want Everything To Be Peaceful During A Birth, I Take The Total Opposite Approach When I'm Helping Someone Come To Terms With Leaving This Place - I Play Richard Pryor Records.