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Erykah Badu [1971-0] American

Rank: 101
Musician, Singer-songwriter

Erykah Abi Wright, better known by her stage name Erykah Badu, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, activist, and actress.

Business, Music, Religion, Respect, Alone, Art, Best, Chance, Communication, Computers, Cool, Experience, Family, Government, Great, Society, Success, Women

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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.	Art, Respect	101
I try to be honest and I keep moving.		102
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.	Communication, Music	103
I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.	Great	104
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.	Cool	105
Music and the music business are two different things.	Business, Music	106
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.		107
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.	Experience	108
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.	Best, Family	109
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.		110
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.		111
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.	Religion	112
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.	Respect	113
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.		114
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.		115
I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.	Success	116
I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.	Women	117
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.	Society	118
It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.		119
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.	Business, Computers, Government	120
I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.		121
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.		122
I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.	Religion	123
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.	Business	124
No one chooses to raise children alone.	Alone	125
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.		126
Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.		201
I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.		202
I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.		203
Honey isn't really that good for you.		204
I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.		205
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.		206
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.		207
I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.		208
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.		209
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.		210
I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.		211
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.		212
What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.		213
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.		214
Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one.		215
I love putting the music together. It's like art.		216
I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.		217
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.		218
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.		219
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.	Chance	220
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.		221
I grew up listening to old soul.		222
I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.		223
I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.		224
Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.		225
When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.		226
I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.		301
I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.		302
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.		303
I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.		304
I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.		305
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.		306
I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.		307
I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.		308

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