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" Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I'm nice, but I'm very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me. "

Missy Elliott

I Am

Run

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" I do Dance Dance Revolution. I'm not as good as the little kids that come in the arcade. Their little feet go crazy fast. I'm not that fast, but I'm good on it! "

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Revolution

Good

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

" 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. "

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

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

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Will

Style

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

" 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 want to make something commercial that people can pick up on. "

Missy Elliott

Want

Something

" I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss. "

" Music is a male-dominated field. "

Missy Elliott

Music

Field

" 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. "

" The double chin's not good for the red carpet. "

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

Missy Elliott

Home

Living

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Missy Elliott

Said

Started

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

Missy Elliott

Fit

Feels

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist. "

" 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. "

" The reason I stay home more is because I realise that my blood pressure started going up. "

Missy Elliott

Pressure

Reason

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

Missy Elliott

Eye

Once

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

Missy Elliott

Got

Percent