Missy Elliot Quotes

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?

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

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

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

I wasn't born a superstar.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I want to be cutting-edge.

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.

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

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

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

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.

What my home life is like now is great.

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

I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.

I love this city [Tel Aviv]!

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 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.

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 tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.