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" He was like, 'I want to get in the studio with you.' Who turns down Pharrell? "

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" I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed. "

" 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. "

" I believe that tracks speak to me. Some tracks make me write certain music or make me feel sad or inspire me to write a sad love song. Each track has its feeling to me. "

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

" I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you. "

" I try not to be cruel to people. I know there's a karma, and I'm constantly thinking of my blessings. I live and die by being a Baptist. If I can't go to church on a Sunday, I'll get a tape by the Clark Sisters and slide it in for the day. "

" I wasn't born a superstar. "

" 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 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 think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane. "

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

" I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through. "

" Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics - like, how many times can we write about the clubs? "

" 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.' "

" It could be hectic sometimes when you're being an artist and running a label at the same time. But there are times when you just have to say that this my time period to work on my stuff, and then you say this is the time to concentrate on my artists. "

" Left Eye is a a rare gem. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me or judging me. "

" Now everybody's sampling. "

" 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. "

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

" You get people who rap about stuff that they don't do all day long. Half those guys, you hear them on the radio, and then you meet them, and you're like, 'Wow. They're so sweet.' "

" I still don't want no broke dude! I'm open to offers, but he's got to be stable. I see a lot of friends who feel they have to be with a man, but they always pick the wrong one. Are there any right ones? "

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

" 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. "

" What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels. "

" 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. "