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" 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. "

Erykah Badu

Work

Work Hard

Path

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Erykah Badu

World

Feel

" 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'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. "

" I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Erykah Badu

Know

You

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

" I love putting the music together. It's like art. "

" I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. "

" Honey isn't really that good for you. "

" I grew up listening to old soul. "

Erykah Badu

Grew

Soul

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

" Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that. "

" I try to be honest and I keep moving. "

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

" I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world. "

" I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen. "

" 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. "

Erykah Badu

Hair

Music

" I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen. "

" What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another. "

Erykah Badu

Music

Communication

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

Erykah Badu

Anything

Read

" And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary. "

" I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there. "