Quotes from Erykah Badu

I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.

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

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.

I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.

I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell.

Andrew Martin

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

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

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

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.

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

Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.

My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

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.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I try to be honest and I keep moving.

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.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.