I view my hair and clothes as functional art.
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I view my hair and clothes as functional art.
ERYKAH BADUI’ve been a vegetarian since I was 19.
ERYKAH BADUIt’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 BADUI think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
ERYKAH BADUA home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it’s such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.
ERYKAH BADUI planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
ERYKAH BADUTime to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
ERYKAH BADU[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.
ERYKAH BADUI 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 BADUIf 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 BADUIn music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.
ERYKAH BADUThe Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.
ERYKAH BADUWhat 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 BADUMy style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.
ERYKAH BADUI 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 BADUWhen 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