235 Quotes by Erykah Badu

I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.

I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.

Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.

Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.

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