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" 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. "

Missy Elliott

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

" I got to feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 percent and that it's game-changing. "

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

" If I'm paying people, and they're not handling my business right, I have to check them. 'Cause sometimes you're nice, and people don't jump on what they're supposed to do, but if you go in there screaming at everybody - 'Look, why aren't my posters up?' or 'Why wasn't my single out on this day?' - then they jump right on it. "

" 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. "

" 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 think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken. "

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

" When something is so hot, I don't want to just jump on it right away. I want to take it home and make sure I give it my best shot. "

" I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they're just kickin' it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" There's that saying: 'God gave you talent, and if you don't use it He'll take it away from you.' And I always said, 'I don't want God to come down and take my talents away.' So, by using all these talents and being successful in all of them, I've always got something to fall back on. "

" The double chin's not good for the red carpet. "

" 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. "

" I never record in front of anybody. "

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

" I never drank water. Always soda. I didn't use to like water, but I've had to train myself to drink it. "

" 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. "

" Now everybody's sampling. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did. "

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

" Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down. "

" 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. "

" People are quick to be like, 'You're irrelevant. You're a flop; you're washed up.' "

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" 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. "