"I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word."

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"I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word."

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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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

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"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."

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"But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do."

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

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"I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time."

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