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" If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do. "

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" I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character. "

" I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments... Always on to the next and never in the moment. "

" It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area. "

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" My best and worst 'Idol' moments? I don't have a worst 'Idol' moment... I've been spectacular. Yes, I am going to toot my own horn. And then my best moment is every single moment. I'll toot it again! "

" You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition. "

" I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper. "

" I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect. "

" My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?' "

" I say nice things about Mariah all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers. "

" I want people - especially young girls - to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You've got to have something else to go with that. "

" I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there. "

" I want to show little girls that the possibilities are endless. That's my goal - to not only do it for myself, but to show them I can do whatever I put my mind to. "

" My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. "

" I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that. "

" As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them. "

" When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun. "

" Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it. "

" I don't have to do things just to please people. It's okay to do what I love because what I love, my fans love. And they're really the only ones that should matter. "

" My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga. "

" I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. "

" When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but it's makeup. It's the weirdest thing. They'll see contouring and think you had surgery on your nose. No. No. No. Look at 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and you'll see... you can make your nose look... what ever shape you want it. "

" When you're a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to - it's like, I can't be all of those things at once. I'm a human being. "

" I don't want a wig that looks like a wig; I want one that could pass for a weave. "

" But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper. "

" You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK. "

" Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day,' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see. "

" My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge. "

" I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities. "

" People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music. "