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 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. - Erykah Badu 4 Share Now -
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. - Erykah Badu 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. - Erykah Badu 7 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
