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" Breaking news: there is only one Missy. "

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" I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me. "

" Don Cornelius was a genius. He created a show where he was breaking artists' songs. If you were on his show, he made the consumer want to go out and purchase your music. He will be greatly missed. If they ever try to recreate what he did, it has to been done right, authentic and real with soul! That's what Don displayed. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I always feel the need to work as if I don't have a deal, because that's what's going to keep me around for a long time. "

" Seeing my mother become very strong and very independent had a huge impact on me. "

" 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. "

" You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable. "

" I have to respect her family, and until they come and say, 'We're ready to do an Aaliyah album,' then I don't really want to come and try to get into that because that's very sensitive. "

" I remember, in school, writing Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson and asking them to come get me out of class. I would imagine them running down the hall and asking my teacher, 'Ms. Daniels, can we get Missy out of class? We're here to see Missy.' "

" I remember having mice in the house and my father taking some newspaper and beating me because mice was running on me while I was asleep. "

" No matter what I'm doing for myself or someone else, I'm constantly writing and working on other people's albums. "

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

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

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

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

" I hear a lot of influence from me and Timbaland's whole sound in a lot of records of today. But if you have classics like that, then I'm sure you gotta expect that it's gonna influence some people. So, I'm fine with that. "

" I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so that people weren't intimidated. "

" Now everybody's sampling. "

" 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. "

" I can't complain. I think when you get to a certain point, you shouldn't complain because there's so many people who would kill to get to this point. "

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

" Music is a male-dominated field. "

" I've learnt to be happy by myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It feels different.... When hip-hop was beginning for me, people weren't making the kind of money that they make now. It was for the love of doing it and having fun with it. "