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" Before Missy, there was no comparison to what Missy was doing. "

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" When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before. "

" I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce. "

" I don't just throw out microwave records. "

" 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. "

" Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I'm nice, but I'm very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me. "

" A lot of people don't know a lot of records that I've written or produced, so that's a highlight for me as a woman. "

" When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh. "

" I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in. "

" I always said if a man would have done half the records that I've done, we would know about it. But we don't know all the records I've done for other artists. "

" I want to be cutting-edge. "

" Music should be your escape. "

" What my home life is like now is great. "

" The fun part of being an entertainer is that you call up Six Flags, and you say, 'I'm coming,' and you get to get on all the rides before everyone. I hate standing in line. "

" A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it. "

" I do Dance Dance Revolution. I'm not as good as the little kids that come in the arcade. Their little feet go crazy fast. I'm not that fast, but I'm good on it! "

" No, I'm a flirtatious person; I'll flirt all day long, but it really is hard to get into that when I'm so into the music, and I'm in the studio all day long and all night sometimes. That's not an exaggeration. "

" When I'm in the studio, I like to be in there by myself because if I'm in the mike room, and I look out and see people talking, or they're not nodding their head or rocking to the music, it makes me feel like it don't sound good, or I'll be scared to really open up vocally because I might mess up, and they might be in there laughing. "

" Maybe I should find myself one of those sexy British soccer stars. David Beckham is hot. But I've got a hell of a lot of competition. "

" Breaking news: there is only one Missy. "

" I know how domestic violence can affect a family, and I want to do everything I can to stop it from happening to others. The most important thing we can do is teach kids that they can break the cycle. "

" When I first started in the business, I spent so much! Staying in a Trump Hotel for two years, spending eight Gs a month just living. "

" I still go on YouTube and watch the old performances and the 'Soul Train' lines. I'm still amazed by how much soul and funk the music and dancers had. "

" Lil' Kim is my sister, known her for years, and I'll never turn my back on her, but there is enough room for everybody. I want to see everybody get it. "

" I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids. "

" Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you're trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record. "

" I don't want to be oh-so-brag-about-it, but 'The Rain' is hot. "

" I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer. "

" And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that. "

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

" My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating. "