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I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.
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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.
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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.
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When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.
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I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me or judging me.
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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.
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I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.
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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.
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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.
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And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that.
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If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there.
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I never drank water. Always soda. I didn't use to like water, but I've had to train myself to drink it.
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I remember having mice in the house and my father taking some newspaper and beating me because mice was running on me while I was asleep.
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If you believe a black cat is bad luck, people think you're crazy, but plenty of times, if I see a black cat down my street, I turn around and go the other way. Even if I'm late. I'll be late for the airport and be in a limo, and if I see a black cat, I'll be like, 'Sir, you have to turn around and go down the next street.'
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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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He was like, 'I want to get in the studio with you.' Who turns down Pharrell?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool.
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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.
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I talked about my father being abusive to my mother - people have never heard me talk about anything like that. That brings people a little bit more personal with Missy.
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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.
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I try not to be cruel to people. I know there's a karma, and I'm constantly thinking of my blessings. I live and die by being a Baptist. If I can't go to church on a Sunday, I'll get a tape by the Clark Sisters and slide it in for the day.
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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.
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I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss.
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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.
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When I'm in the studio, I like to be in there by myself because if I'm in the mike room, and I look out and see people talking, or they're not nodding their head or rocking to the music, it makes me feel like it don't sound good, or I'll be scared to really open up vocally because I might mess up, and they might be in there laughing.
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My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.
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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.
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Seeing my mother become very strong and very independent had a huge impact on me.
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I feel like, O.K., if I can make it as a singer, then let me try rapping. If I can make it as a rapper, then let me try writing. All right? If I make it as a rap singer and writer, then why not try to produce? I don't feel limited in any way.
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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.'
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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.
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Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.
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I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.
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