Missy Elliott Quotes

I go out and date people, but I don’t have that relationship, where you know, I’m like Jennifer Lopez, like I’m going to get married.

What my home life is like now is great.

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.

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

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.

I most definitely want kids, but I’ll probably adopt kids.

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.

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they’re just kickin’ it.

Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

I think Aaliyah has influenced artists like a Ciara.

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.

I know how domestic violence can affect a family, and I want to do everything I can to stop it from happening to others. The most important thing we can do is teach kids that they can break the cycle.

No, because I don’t want to hear what’s hot and feel I have to copy it. I’ll just make up my own thing.

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

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

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Me personally, I don’t ask too much, but I do ask Him to continue to bless me successfully, financially, and just to keep me humble.

You get people who rap about stuff that they don’t do all day long. Half those guys, you hear them on the radio, and then you meet them, and you’re like, ‘Wow. They’re so sweet.’

I don’t just throw out microwave records.

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

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

‘Soul Train’ means so much to me.

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

When it comes to size, most people don’t want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you’re trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record.

If you got talent, you just have to do you.

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.

I want to be cutting-edge.

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.

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

I never record in front of anybody.

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

No, I’m a flirtatious person; I’ll flirt all day long, but it really is hard to get into that when I’m so into the music, and I’m in the studio all day long and all night sometimes. That’s not an exaggeration.

I love my mother. She’s my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

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.

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.

Left Eye is a a rare gem.

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