Erykah By Do Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Erykah Badu

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. — Erykah Badu

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

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing. — Lianne La Havas

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. — Erykah Badu

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

I was born to make mistakes, I ain't scared to take the weight. — Erykah Badu

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school. — Erykah Badu

I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy,why not make up happy shit? — Erykah Badu

I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing. — Erykah Badu

Some people come up and ask for an autograph and don't even look at me. They're like, 'Here, do it.' That don't bother me, but it doesn't open my heart. — Erykah Badu

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside. — Erykah Badu

Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned. — Erykah Badu

Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is. — Erykah Badu

We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art. — Erykah Badu

Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not ... " - Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear - " ... when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing. — Erykah Badu

If we were made in his image then call us by our names.
Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same — Erykah Badu

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. — Erykah Badu

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. — Erykah Badu

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu

Art is the absence of fear. — Erykah Badu

I grew up listening to old soul. — Erykah Badu

I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person. — Erykah Badu

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19. — Erykah Badu

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. — Erykah Badu

If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that. — Erykah Badu

The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside. — Erykah Badu

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. — Erykah Badu

I'm trying to decide
Which way to go
I think I made a wrong turn back there somewhere
Didn't cha know, didn't cha know
Tried to move but I lost my way
Didn't cha know, didn't cha know
Stopped to watch my emotions sway
Didn't cha know, didn't cha know
Knew the toll, but I would not pay
Didn't cha know, didn't cha know
Cause you never know where the cards may lay
Time to save the world
Where in the world is all the time
So many things I still don't know
So many times I've changed my mind
Guess I was born to make mistakes
But I ain't scared to take the weight
So when I stumble off the path
I know my heart will guide me back — Erykah Badu

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off. — Erykah Badu

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

A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be. — Erykah Badu

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. — Erykah Badu

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. — Erykah Badu

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. — Erykah Badu