Missy Elliot Quotes

MC is a funny girl and always makes me laugh no matter what. I love her!

I wasn't born a superstar.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

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.

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

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.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

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.

I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

I want to be cutting-edge.

Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

What my home life is like now is great.

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.

I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

People ask, "What do you think about being called Puff Mommy?" Puff's a very successful young man, so I don't have a problem if that's what they wanna call me. If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.

I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.

Music should be your escape.

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.

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.

I gotta feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 per cent and that it's game-changing. I don't just throw out microwave records.

I love this city [Tel Aviv]!

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

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.

I'm kind of speaking for the females, ... what's in our mind if we could get revenge, what it would be like. Not to say that we would do it because we would be locked up if you go by my video version of it but just in our minds, if we could have our way with a relationship gone bad. So it's crazy.

The double chin's not good for the red carpet.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

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.

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.