I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.

I think fashion has a lot to do with passion and that's where you get your inspiration.

The only men I love are dead.

Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he calling me NyQuil

Pink Friday is a celebration of my life at this moment; it is a reflection of me as a creator, and an expression of me as a woman.

But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.