Portrait of the artist: Erykah Badu, singer

'Bleeding, sweating, crying, suffocating and being crushed – that's what art is made of'What got you started?I was born like this – loving music and wanting to express myself through it. This is just how they made me.What was your big breakthrough?When I was 15, I wrote a letter to myself saying: "I know it's going to happen for you." Ten years later, when I was 25, it happened. Do I still have the letter? Of course.Do you suffer for your art?Yes, I do; I suffer bleeding, sweating, crying, s...

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