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" It feels different.... When hip-hop was beginning for me, people weren't making the kind of money that they make now. It was for the love of doing it and having fun with it. "

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" It could be hectic sometimes when you're being an artist and running a label at the same time. But there are times when you just have to say that this my time period to work on my stuff, and then you say this is the time to concentrate on my artists. "

Missy Elliott

Work

Artist

Say

" I have to respect her family, and until they come and say, 'We're ready to do an Aaliyah album,' then I don't really want to come and try to get into that because that's very sensitive. "

" I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids. "

" I've only ever had two vacations in my whole career, and I've been in the industry over twenty-something years! "

" 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 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.' "

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

" Me personally, I don't ask too much, but I do ask Him to continue to bless me successfully, financially, and just to keep me humble. "

" I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. "

" I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once. "

Missy Elliott

Eye

Once

" 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. "

" I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed. "

" 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 think Aaliyah has influenced artists like a Ciara. "

Missy Elliott

Think

I Think

" My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating. "

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

" He was like, 'I want to get in the studio with you.' Who turns down Pharrell? "

Missy Elliott

Who

Want

" I ain't no icon. It's people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that's an icon. I'm just Missy. I'm just crazy, that's all. "

Missy Elliott

Just

Crazy

" 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

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

" 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 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. "

" Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you're trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record. "

" I never drank water. Always soda. I didn't use to like water, but I've had to train myself to drink it. "

" I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. "

" 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. "

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

" 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've learnt to be happy by myself. "

" 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. "