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

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

" I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" When I first started in the business, I spent so much! Staying in a Trump Hotel for two years, spending eight Gs a month just living. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The fun part of being an entertainer is that you call up Six Flags, and you say, 'I'm coming,' and you get to get on all the rides before everyone. I hate standing in line. "

" 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 guess my friends probably think I'm one of the lamest when it comes to doing stuff. "

" 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. "

" Breaking news: there is only one Missy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. "

" 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'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. "

" Before Missy, there was no comparison to what Missy was doing. "

" 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. "

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