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Music should be your escape.

Missy Elliot

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My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
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I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.
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Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
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I'm kind of speaking for the females, ... what's 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 it's crazy.
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I wasn't born a superstar.
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I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.
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I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.
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I gotta feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 per cent and that it's game-changing. I don't just throw out microwave records.
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I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.
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I really enjoy writing and producing for other artists. Some people save their best songs for their own albums. I'd rather give another artist one of my songs. At the end of the day, it still represents me.
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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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My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.
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I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want
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What my home life is like now is great.
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You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.
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I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.
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I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys - I used to give them bubblegum to chew.
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People ask, What do you think about being called Puff Mommy? Puff's a very successful young man, so I don't have a problem if that's what they wanna call me. If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.
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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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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.
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