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" 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. "

Missy Elliott

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" I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in. "

Missy Elliott

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" I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss. "

" 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 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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Missy Elliott

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" Now everybody's sampling. "

" I felt like, 'How do I fit in'? I'm battling. But then I never fit in!'... I thank God for somebody like Pharrell who stayed in my ear. For him, at that time, 'Happy' was everywhere; he didn't have to share anything with me. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" Everybody is doing the same old thing. "

" My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects. "

" 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. "

" I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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