Quotes About Erykah Badu

Electronics, samples and vocals are all fed into The Log.Os' music, and a fresh take on soul comes out. The band's songs splash around in the same gene pool as neo-soul artists like Erykah Badu, but they reach forward to pull ideas from glitch-hop producers such as Flying Lotus and Prefuse 73.

My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.

Then I met people at school who were into Erykah Badu and Snoop Dogg. I like heaps of different music, but that was a real pivotal time in terms of finding my way.

I solidify his [ Riccardo Tisci] vision and what he is trying to manifest, make it a crystal or solid thing because of the relationship I have with my culture and what my music means to him.

I was a bit late on Erykah Badu, but I don't think you can really be late on music. You discover it whenever; music is timeless.

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

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

Erykah Badu - she's timeless, that's my second mom.

I want to be fashion's Erykah Badu. What I admire about her is her timelessness and her fearless approach.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

I have mentors like Erykah Badu. She's been like a big sister to me.

What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.

Erykah Badu sang with me at a sold out show in San Francisco which was great.

With 'Lady Lady' I wanted to tell a story bluntly, and that's what happened. The goal is to get Erykah Badu-ish with it because she super bares her soul and she's so blunt.

I love Erykah Badu. Every time I listen to her music, I'm, like, laying out all the instruments in the song, like, how I would loop it.

When I started making my own music I was listening to people like Erykah Badu and Elliott Smith. I think I always gravitated towards slightly more understated voices because it felt like I could really connect with what they were saying. It felt more like a conversation.

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

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.

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.