Tag: Erykah Badu
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I don’t have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot of water. Have a wheatgrass shot. Drink some green juice. Eat as healthy as I can.
Erykah Badu
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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.
Erykah Badu
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Music and the music business are two different things.
Erykah Badu
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I’m a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
Erykah Badu
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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
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I don’t feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience’s ability to feel me.
Erykah Badu
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that’s cool. Let’s look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
Erykah Badu
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It’s nothing I work real hard at doing.
Erykah Badu
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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.
Erykah Badu
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Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.
Erykah Badu