Missy Elliot Quotes
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I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"
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I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want
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My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
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I wasn't born a superstar.
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I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.
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The double chin's not good for the red carpet.
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I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.
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Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
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I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys - I used to give them bubblegum to chew.
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I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it
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I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.
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Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.
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I really enjoy writing and producing for other artists. Some people save their best songs for their own albums. I'd rather give another artist one of my songs. At the end of the day, it still represents me.
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When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.
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I love this city [Tel Aviv]!
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If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.
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I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.
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My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.
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The rapping is cool, but my lines aren't all that fly. People like Biggie Smalls or Jay-Z who say stuff that you have to rewind and listen to twice and be like, "Wow, what made them say that?" or "I would have never thought about saying that" - those are rappers I really look up to. As far as flows, I can give you flows all day.
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I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.
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I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
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When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.
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I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.
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Everybody is doing the same old thing.
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Lil Wayne is a person who I think is really deserving of the success he's had. I'm someone who can stay in the studio 24-7, and I've watched him stay in there just as long. He has a creativeness about him that I love.
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When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial to the world. They need to ask me about stuff that may help readers, like how my father abused my mother for many years. A lot of kids go through that and need to know what they should do.
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Music should be your escape.
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Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.
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I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.
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I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.
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