As she floated in the tub ("I always go all the way underneath the water and try to hold my breath a long time," she said), she had a revelation: "Different thoughts kept coming into my head. The first thought was, ooh, I wonder if my hair gonna be cute when I get out. And then another voice over me said, Ego, we need you, we're going to need you for our mission. And another voice over my head goes, oh, Willpower, bless your heart, you're going to be stronger soon. And then another voice - oh Heart, you're so compassionate, you have to toughen up a little.
"I figured out, like, wow, all of these things in me are fighting to have a space all the time, and it's like a dialogue going on inside of me all the time."
Badu is certain her fans are now ready to hear it. "Being humble is so 2007," she said. "Trust me."
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