Erykah Badu on Creative Process

"Music is what brings it out of me. I've never written lyrics without music — that would be poetry.

It's the music first, then I hum in a rhythmic, syncopated way. The next part is listening to it and decoding what I'm saying.

It's almost like a lump of clay and carving away at it, revealing what's under it."

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