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

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" 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. "

" I still don't want no broke dude! I'm open to offers, but he's got to be stable. I see a lot of friends who feel they have to be with a man, but they always pick the wrong one. Are there any right ones? "

" 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 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. "

" When I create something, it's got to be special, and it can't just be to throw something out there because I feel like I'm Missy. "

" Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father. "

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

" 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 always have been an entertainer, whether it's been joking or performing for people. And I always thought I had a talent, because I could rap and I could sing, and I did write. And all the other kids were going to college, but I just felt like I had to do this first, and if it didn't work, then I would go to college. "

" If you got talent, you just have to do you. "

" I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer. "

" When I'm in the studio, I like to be in there by myself because if I'm in the mike room, and I look out and see people talking, or they're not nodding their head or rocking to the music, it makes me feel like it don't sound good, or I'll be scared to really open up vocally because I might mess up, and they might be in there laughing. "

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

" I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so that people weren't intimidated. "

" My blood pressure was always up from just overworking. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You get people who rap about stuff that they don't do all day long. Half those guys, you hear them on the radio, and then you meet them, and you're like, 'Wow. They're so sweet.' "

" 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.' "