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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.

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
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Dallas
Texas
Erica Abi Wright
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When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I've been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It's almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.
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I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
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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.
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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 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 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'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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Things are useless without practice.
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My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend
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