It’s just really hard to commit to clean eating, and then sometimes you don’t want to eat cold salads. Sometimes you want that warm comfort food.
I just feel Black women, we get slept on a lot and people don’t recognize our greatness in our curls and in chocolate skin.
Yeah, I believe in all the wild, witchcraft stuff. I don't like to dabble in that, but I believe they all know something.
People will appreciate who you are when you're naturally being who you are.
I knew I wanted to sing and maybe I had a chance at it, so I just started recording myself maybe five or six times a week and putting them on YouTube as much as I could with hopes that someone would recognize me.
I’m hoping to bring some raunchy, risky, soulful frankness to the stage, really.
Old friends call me Sea Salt, because my last name is Salter. Or Cocoa, cause my real first name is Courtney.
When it comes to creativity, or my artistry, when it comes to how I wear my hair and what I’m dressing like, some things I’m going to fight for; and it’s really about picking the battles, but usually I’m not backing down.
Yeah, the first contract I signed, that was the first time I realized, Oh man, never mind, I don’t want to do this anymore, but it was too late. I realized it was a bad thing because I wanted to try out for 'American Idol' and all these different things couldn’t do that because I was in this contract.
I'm always going to take an experience and a fire beat and marry it all together with adult melodies. I try to paint, just like Frank Ocean paints with his lyrics. I try in similar ways to paint my life into these songs.
My best writing is not outside of the beat. I'm 99 percent influenced by the beat first, and then the words just flow.
My favorite style inspirations are between Rihanna and Diana Ross.
Could I be a good mom? That's a dream, I pray that I'll be the best mom ever. But I don't know. It's so important to me.
I always imagined having so much energy on stage, versus me being somewhat chill, soulful R&B.
My dad would always play Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Anita Baker, so I fell in love with them. I would try to make my voice sound like theirs.
Grandma Holly told me at three years old that I had a voice of an angel, and I just never stopped singing.
I know it may come off cheesy, but if somebody's going to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars, even more into you, you want to make sure you can return that; you want to make sure they feel good about their investment.
But yeah, so many people are just not very genuine online. I caught myself looking for my ex, and a lot of these people that I would swipe right on, I'm meeting them in real life and they're just not that guy at all.
But yeah, YouTube started for me straight out of high school, so 2009, because everyone was going to college except me.
I really think only Erykah Badu can be Erykah Badu.
