I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.
I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot of water. Have a wheatgrass shot. Drink some green juice. Eat as healthy as I can.
I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.
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.
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.