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" Music should be your escape. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I got to feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 percent and that it's game-changing. "

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

" It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer. "

" 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. "

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

" I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool. "

" What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels. "

" I wasn't born a superstar. "

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

" 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 never record in front of anybody. "

" You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Maybe I should find myself one of those sexy British soccer stars. David Beckham is hot. But I've got a hell of a lot of competition. "

" If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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