Quotes from Joel McIver

I couldn't wait to plug them in and listen to Sepultura's Roots album on them, because they're the size of the Glastonbury PA. So I put in a CD of Roots and I turned it up to 10—and that fucking record blew those speakers right out. Fifty-thousand-dollar speakers, gone because of Roots …

I wear my headwrap because because a headwrap is a crown, and I am a queen. [—Erykah Badu]

What good to your words do if they can't understand you? [—Erykah Badu]

What good do your words do if they can't understand you? [—Erykah Badu]

Thirty's nothing. You ain't did nothing. You seen 30 summers. As far as youth is concerned, it's the same mind really.

He's one of my best friends in the world, and from my plant it's OK for a boy and a girl to be good friends without being in an intimate relationship. [—Erykah Badu]

Sometimes I feel sorry for myself for some of the tougher things I've had to encounter in life, but other than that, I wouldn't change a thing. It makes me happy to know I could endure. And it gets easier and easier as you go on. [—Erykah Badu]

Within our own races we distinguish between the natural" and "unnatural" people. But what if none of that really makes a difference? What if we are just black, white, Chinese, African, Native American; what if we're just all here to experience the consequences of our choices and judgements; and what if all this is put in front of us so that we can just all grow as individuals?... You were born by yourself and, when you go to the next level, you're gonna go by yourself. [—Erykah Badu]

He's one of my best friends in the world, and from my planet its OK for a boy and a girl to be good friends without being in an intimate relationship. [—Erykah Badu]