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I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator always gives me the energy.

Erykah Badu

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Erykah Badu
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 26
Actor
Composer
Jazz Musician
Poet
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Erica Abi Wright
Erica Wright
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I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.
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If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.
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I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
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I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.
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I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.
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Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
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If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.
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Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.
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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 planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.
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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.
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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.
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I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.
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