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" You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day. "

" I wasn't born a superstar. "

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

" 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. "

" I always said if a man would have done half the records that I've done, we would know about it. But we don't know all the records I've done for other artists. "

" I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show. "

" 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. "

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

" It could be hectic sometimes when you're being an artist and running a label at the same time. But there are times when you just have to say that this my time period to work on my stuff, and then you say this is the time to concentrate on my artists. "

" People are quick to be like, 'You're irrelevant. You're a flop; you're washed up.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "