Erykah Badu

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. ”

Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness. ”