#al

I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#celebrity #entertainer #fond #i #i love

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

#america #black #born #cloud #harder

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#artist #clock #going #i #master

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. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#artists #experience #kind #literally #lot

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 #different #else #i #me

Honey isn't really that good for you. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#honey #really #you

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#basically #ear #go #i #music

What you believe can change your experience. ↗

— Staness Jonekos

#nonfiction #women-s-health #beauty

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#children #had #happen #i #lot

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. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#coming #communication #does #growth #i