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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I feel like, O.K., if I can make it as a singer, then let me try rapping. If I can make it as a rapper, then let me try writing. All right? If I make it as a rap singer and writer, then why not try to produce? I don't feel limited in any way. "

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

" I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me or judging me. "

" No matter what I'm doing for myself or someone else, I'm constantly writing and working on other people's albums. "

" I wasn't born a superstar. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain. "

" Seeing my mother become very strong and very independent had a huge impact on me. "

" I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen. "

" I never record in front of anybody. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't want to get caught up and be an artist always on the go. Because once you do that, it's hard to get into the studio and do what I do. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I love to see women just have on their own, and you watch the guys do it all the time. They go out on the road with each other - probably don't even like each other, but they going to get that money. "

" 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 think Aaliyah has influenced artists like a Ciara. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "