I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside. Erykah Badu More Quotes by Erykah Badu More Quotes From Erykah Badu Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records. Erykah Badu helping-someoneoppositesplay Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy. Erykah Badu breathingjoylaughing They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day. Erykah Badu nursingelderlyhome I love putting the music together. It's like art Erykah Badu togetherart I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is Erykah Badu interpretationlistenersfun 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 Erykah Badu here-and-theredifferentart 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 realmeanart 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 duckslinesway Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. Erykah Badu businesswantmen 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 differentbusinesstrying When you're performing, you're creating a moment. Erykah Badu performingcreatingmoments We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color. Erykah Badu gownsmy-favoritecolor 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 patternselementswriting 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 be-kindhard-workpath 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 projectsrelaxgiving-up If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it. Erykah Badu sticksdecisionshould I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were. Erykah Badu competitionlevelslasts I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist. Erykah Badu artistwritingthinking 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. Erykah Badu holidaybeautifulmoving 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. Erykah Badu articlesinterviewssomewhere-else
