Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.

You can't really just make someone into something and it works all the time; that person has to be a natural.

My fan mail is what keeps me going.

I'm human, you're human. So they said, but inside we're all animals.

All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.

I ain't acting when I'm on stage. That's why all the little love bugs who'll come and see me at Lovebox love me. They know it's the real me.

Call me Sunshine, pussy spread like the rainbow.