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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
Explore more quotes by Erykah Badu

"The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear."

"I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform."

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

"As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion."

"Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing."

"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."

"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."

"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."

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