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" 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

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Road

Love

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" I want to be cutting-edge. "

Missy Elliott

Cutting-Edge

Want

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

" 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. "

Missy Elliott

Said

Started

" 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. "

" The person I eventually find will have to like me and my style. "

Missy Elliott

Will

Style

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool. "

" I talked about my father being abusive to my mother - people have never heard me talk about anything like that. That brings people a little bit more personal with Missy. "

Missy Elliott

Father

Talk

" I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before. "

Missy Elliott

Say

Comparison

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

Missy Elliott

Fit

Feels

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

" 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. "

" 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 used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer. "

Missy Elliott

Doll

Singer

" I still go on YouTube and watch the old performances and the 'Soul Train' lines. I'm still amazed by how much soul and funk the music and dancers had. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 just throw out microwave records. "

" 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. "

" 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'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day. "