Quotes by Missy Elliott

“If I didnt have some kind of education, then I wouldnt be able to count my money.”

“I got to thank God because thats my inspiration for everything that I do.”

“Im kind of speaking for the females, ... whats in our mind if we could get revenge, what it would be like. Not to say that we would do it — because we would be locked up if you go by my video version of it — but just in our minds, if we could have our way with a relationship gone bad. So its crazy.”

“I was in Thriller, ”

“Feel Good, Inc.”

“[Tim fans need not despair: Pop musics greatest producer will be reunited with his favorite muse.] Im quite sure that Tim and I are going to be together, ... Its not like we had an argument and arent talking. Tims my brother and always will be.”

“It was both scary and liberating, ... When youve been working with someone for that many albums, you feel the world wont be able to accept you without him.”

“Lose Control.”

“Shes hot, ... Soon as I heard her album I thought, I gotta get this girl on my album. Im good at spotting new sounds, and M.I.A. is definitely the artist right now with that sound.”

“Missy is still going to be Missy. Whatever I get on, its still me. If I do a record with Madonna or Mariah Carey, even if I did a record with Faith Hill, its still going to be a Missy record.”

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that theres some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something thats really important to us, and music is all weve really got.

I didnt want to be a genius! That aint cool.

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? Were here to see Missy.

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.

Music should be your escape.

I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you dont give people that, they feel like you are being fake and youre not telling the truth. So its like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, its too much for you.

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. Its harder for us to come out and be bosses and lead the pack.

Id 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, Isnt she cute. I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage.

My imagination is so far out there already. People couldnt imagine what goes on in my brain.

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.