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" When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before. "

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" I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got. "

" A lot of people don't do this. You can count on a couple of hands probably how many artists also produce and write, both for themselves and for others, and are able to be successful at both things. "

" I can't complain. I think when you get to a certain point, you shouldn't complain because there's so many people who would kill to get to this point. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. People would roll down their windows saying, 'Isn't she cute'. I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Its funny, because for females in general - not just in music, but the corporate ladder as well - anything we do has always been harder for us. When it comes to music, the industry wants you to conform, to look like this and to sound like this and do this or that. It makes it harder. It's harder for us to come out and be bosses and lead the pack. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Everybody is doing the same old thing. "

" 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 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. "

" A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it. "

" When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it. "

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