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.
From Erykah Badu
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 don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
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.
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
I love putting the music together. It's like art.
I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
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