Erykah Badu
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Biography
Erica Abi Wright, known professionally as Erykah Badu, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Influenced by R&B, soul, and hip-hop, Badu rose to prominence in the late 1990s when her debut studio album Baduizm (1997), placed her at the forefront of the neo soul movement, earning her the nickname "Queen of Neo Soul" by music critics.
"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."
"I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen."
"Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you"
"Discipline is important, we need to be more focused on what we put into our bodies."
"I've been vegan for two years and vegetarian for 20 years. I used to be a dancer, and so health and vitality have always been important to me. I wouldn't say it took any one big event, vegetarianism just always made sense to me. [What farmed animals] endure is just terrible. It's horrible … Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure."
"No one chooses to raise children alone."
"The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings."
"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business."
"Music and the music business are two different things."
"But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different."
"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."
"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business."
"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."
"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."
"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business."
"The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings."
"The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings."
"Music and the music business are two different things."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform."
"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."
"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."
"My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables,It don't have nothing to do with your new friend"