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. -Erykah Badu Men
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. -Erykah Badu Relationship
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. -Erykah Badu Music
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. -Erykah Badu Computers
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. -Erykah Badu Money
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. -Erykah Badu Respect
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. -Erykah Badu Business
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. -Erykah Badu Society
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different. -Erykah Badu Chance
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. -Erykah Badu Art
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. -Erykah Badu Respect
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. -Erykah Badu Music
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. -Erykah Badu Religion
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. -Erykah Badu Religion
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. -Erykah Badu Music
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different. -Erykah Badu Business
