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

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

" Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics - like, how many times can we write about the clubs? "

" Lil' Kim is my sister, known her for years, and I'll never turn my back on her, but there is enough room for everybody. I want to see everybody get it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 wasn't born a superstar. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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