235 Quotes by Erykah Badu

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’m only in competition with my last level.

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

I’m kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

Don’t let anybody infiltrate your dream.

What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I’ve worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.

During childbirth and hospice I’ll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I’ve made up, or I’ll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

I’m a Pisces, so I’m a very closed-book kind of person.

The reason why you don’t see people looking like me is because I don’t encourage that. I encourage you to be you.