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

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" 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. "

" Its funny, because for females in general - not just in music, but the corporate ladder as well - anything we do has always been harder for us. When it comes to music, the industry wants you to conform, to look like this and to sound like this and do this or that. It makes it harder. It's harder for us to come out and be bosses and lead the pack. "

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

" 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 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 guess my friends probably think I'm one of the lamest when it comes to doing stuff. "

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

" I still represent for overweight adults and kids, but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues. "

" 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. "

" I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show. "

" 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. "

" 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 couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen. "

" Music is a male-dominated field. "

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

" If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life. "

" 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. "

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

" I go out and date people, but I don't have that relationship, where you know, I'm like Jennifer Lopez, like I'm going to get married. "

" If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there. "

" 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. "

" 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'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. People would roll down their windows saying, 'Isn't she cute'. I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage. "

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

" The reason I stay home more is because I realise that my blood pressure started going up. "

" I've only ever had two vacations in my whole career, and I've been in the industry over twenty-something years! "

" I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool. "

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

" 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. "

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