Latest Missy Elliot Quotes from Interviews

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• When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial to the world. They need to ask me about stuff that may help readers, like how my father abused my mother for many years. A lot of kids go through that and need to know what they should do.

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  Mother, Father, Sleep

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

• Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.

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  Beautiful, Nice, Trying

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

• I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

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  People, Laughing, Comedian

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

• I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

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  Mother, Phones, Talking

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

• The rapping is cool, but my lines aren't all that fly. People like Biggie Smalls or Jay-Z who say stuff that you have to rewind and listen to twice and be like, "Wow, what made them say that?" or "I would have never thought about saying that" - those are rappers I really look up to. As far as flows, I can give you flows all day.

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  Rap, People, Giving

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

• 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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  Song, Writing, Artist

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

• I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.

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  Artist, Thinking, People

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

• 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.

  Missy Elliot

  Successful, Men, Thinking

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

• 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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  Taken, Feet, Males

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

• I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"

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  Sneakers, Maids, Too Much

  Source: www.elle.com

• I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.

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  Kids, Listening, Sound

  Source: www.elle.com

• Lil Wayne is a person who I think is really deserving of the success he's had. I'm someone who can stay in the studio 24-7, and I've watched him stay in there just as long. He has a creativeness about him that I love.

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  Thinking, Long, Wayne

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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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  Writing, First Love, Love Is

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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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  Artist, Order, Labels

  Source: www.elle.com