Erykah Badu Quotes - Page 3

My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.

I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

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.

I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.

If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.

I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.

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.

My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

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

I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."

I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

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.

I don't know why, it's just what I feel inside, the thoughts that I sing about. It's just my truth. Sometimes my emotions can be mistaken for messages.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.

Poor is the new black.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

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.

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.

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.