The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. – Erykah Badu
When youre in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work. – Erykah Badu

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. – Erykah Badu
When youre in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work. – Erykah Badu
Im free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I dont try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I dont compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. – Erykah Badu
What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that Im a good person to society. Thats hard. The talent, thats a gift. I just came here like that. – Erykah Badu
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. But when we pick ourselves up we find our bones are, after all, not broken; while level enough and not unpleasing is the new terrace which lies unexplored before us. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931