Erykah Badu

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. ”

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it. ”

I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there. ”

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. ”

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is. ”

I grew up listening to old soul. ”

I love putting the music together. It's like art. ”

Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one. ”

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'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out. ”