Erykah Badu

I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.

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.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.

I grew up listening to old soul.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

Music and the music business are two different things.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.