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I knew it would happen. I knew I’d be No. 1. I’m a new artist; I don’t know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn’t happen

Erykah Badu

It’s just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don’t even leave that apartment. I have just enough: a little bed, a little kitchen with two pots. I make some tea and I look out the window or just lay down.
ERYKAH BADU

Kitchen Leave Most People Tea Two
I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
ERYKAH BADU

Artist Job Thinking
Erykah Badu projects don’t even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don’t even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
ERYKAH BADU

Album Project Sound
I knew it would happen. I knew I’d be No. 1. I’m a new artist; I don’t know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn’t happen
ERYKAH BADU

Artist Happen Told
If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, ‘I’m gonna do this,’ and you should stick to it.
ERYKAH BADU

Decision Should Stick
What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I’ve worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.
ERYKAH BADU

Consider Mean Music People Sing
When you’re 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

Parent Requirement Taught
I trust the political system to be what it is. It’s a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country’s best interests at heart. Not the people’s.
ERYKAH BADU

Country Heart Running
Music and the music business are two different things.
ERYKAH BADU

Business Different Music Two
Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
ERYKAH BADU

Bless Blessing Learn Lesson Wealth
I’m learning from them! Everyone says that, but it’s true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
ERYKAH BADU

Everyone Lesson True Yourself
I’m just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
ERYKAH BADU

Emotion Everyone Everything Express People
I have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform – every night, you know.
ERYKAH BADU

Blue Night Uniform
I’m pretty mutable as a human being.
ERYKAH BADU

Human Mutable Pretty
I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 19.
ERYKAH BADU

Love Ninteen Ten Vegetarian
Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is.
ERYKAH BADU

Choice Government Way

I knew it would happen. I knew I’d be No. 1. I’m a new artist; I don’t know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn’t happen

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