We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don’t get a chance. Now there’s a lot of other people like myself, indeed, who are getting heard worldwide. That gives other artists a chance.
I grew up listening to old soul.
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She’s someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That’s what I do, too, so I think that’s a great comparison.
I believed in myself, and I’ve always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.
I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.
Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can’t do that. I don’t create way.
Breathing becomes really easy when you’re laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.
A 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.
I don’t plan how many people I work with. I don’t charge anything. It’s for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.
I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I’m always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It’s therapy. It’s always happening.
I’m pretty mutable as a human being, period – if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.
I’m a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
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.
They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don’t have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.