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" I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once. "
Missy Elliott
Eye
Am
Once
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" My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father. "
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Home
Living
Me
" I always have been an entertainer, whether it's been joking or performing for people. And I always thought I had a talent, because I could rap and I could sing, and I did write. And all the other kids were going to college, but I just felt like I had to do this first, and if it didn't work, then I would go to college. "
Missy Elliott
College
People
Talent
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Stars
Competition
Myself
" The reason I stay home more is because I realise that my blood pressure started going up. "
Missy Elliott
Pressure
Up
Reason
" I love to see women just have on their own, and you watch the guys do it all the time. They go out on the road with each other - probably don't even like each other, but they going to get that money. "
Missy Elliott
Time
Road
Love
" Before Missy, there was no comparison to what Missy was doing. "
Missy Elliott
Before
Comparison
Doing
" 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. "
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Point
People
Who
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
People
Live
Day
" I think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane. "
Missy Elliott
She
Own
Lane
" Music should be your escape. "
Missy Elliott
Your
Should
Music
" It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer. "
Missy Elliott
Time
Know
Name
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Women
Sometimes
Music
" My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain. "
Missy Elliott
People
Imagine
Imagination
" Now everybody's sampling. "
Missy Elliott
Now
Sampling
Everybody
" I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. "
Missy Elliott
Got
Mother
She
" The double chin's not good for the red carpet. "
Missy Elliott
Red
Good
Double
" I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. "
Missy Elliott
Down
Time
Mine
" All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I'm human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don't see the background. "
Missy Elliott
Trials
See
Personal
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Hip-Hop
He
Did
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Know
Woman
Lot
" My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone. "
Missy Elliott
Humble
I Am
Mother
" I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. "
Missy Elliott
She
Survivor
Mother
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Want
Artist
Control
" 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. "
Missy Elliott
Sometimes
Day
Hard
" 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! "
Missy Elliott
Revolution
Go
Good
" Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down. "
Missy Elliott
People
Doing
Down
" A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it. "
Missy Elliott
Street
Walk
Song
" A lot of people don't know that before the artist, I wanted to be a writer and producer. That's always been a love of mine. Its easy for me to do it on myself, but it's fun to create for someone else. "
Missy Elliott
Myself
Love
Me
" I don't want to get caught up and be an artist always on the go. Because once you do that, it's hard to get into the studio and do what I do. "
Missy Elliott
Want
You
Hard
" I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist. "
Missy Elliott
Tryin
Come
Best