Latest Michel'le Quotes from Interviews

Quotes about:

• Well, right now, my music is - it's just happy. I'm not in a relationship, but I know who I am now. I have wisdom. I have the power of knowing who I am. That's huge.

  Michel'le

  Knowing, Who I Am, Music Is

  Source: www.elle.com

• For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.

  Michel'le

  Men, Mind, World

  Source: www.elle.com

• I had to survive a lot. I didn't premeditate my life. Life just happened as it did. And I had to figure it out as I went along.

  Michel'le

  Figures, Happened

  Source: www.elle.com

• There are no mistakes in life, and it's not about anybody being able to judge you.

  Michel'le

  Mistake, Judging, Able

  Source: www.elle.com

• I tried to be strong in the face of obstacles.

  Michel'le

  Strong, Faces, Obstacles

  Source: www.elle.com

• Doing reality TV is hard. You get lost. You are shooting three months before anybody sees it. So you are past [the emotions]. Then when it airs and the public sees it, they react and it drags you back. It feels you have grown, but then you suddenly feel like you haven't moved at all.

  Michel'le

  Reality, Past, Air

  Source: www.elle.com

• I'm not all dolled up. We tried to keep it as real as we could. We're telling you something that happened. It's a part of history. I hope this movie [ 'Surviving Compton'] gives you a little bit of me and of my music and my heart.

  Michel'le

  Real, Heart, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

• I was appearing on the reality show R&B Divas and when I started to fall apart it was very public. But I am glad that it happened that way. It made me see myself. And it made me transparent.

  Michel'le

  Fall, Reality, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

• I know in the movie it looks like my grandmother is condoning it, but she really wasn't. But back in those days, men beat women. She was trying to tell me something without being judgmental, trying to help me understand that's what men do.

  Michel'le

  Grandmother, Men, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

• When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

  Michel'le

  Mother, Months, Three

  Source: www.elle.com

• It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.

  Michel'le

  Mother, Like Love, Accepted

  Source: www.elle.com

• I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't.

  Michel'le

  Thinking, Together, Firsts

  Source: www.elle.com

• I would go back in time and do differently it is that. I would go back and ask, 'Why?' But I never did. I got up, he got up, we went on about our day. We never discussed the situation [with Dre]. Just, never.

  Michel'le

  Situation, Go Back In Time, Back In Time

  Source: www.elle.com

• I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

  Michel'le

  Night, Thinking, Aftermath

  Source: www.elle.com

• When I say I loved it, I don't mean I loved being hit. I just mean...there was some good in there, too. I am not going to call it all bad.

  Michel'le

  Mean

  Source: www.elle.com

• The beatings, the beatings were so normal to me. The abuse was just routine. I didn't wake up the next day and say, 'Dre, why did you hit me?' We never talked about it the next day. Never.

  Michel'le

  Next Day, Abuse, Routine

  Source: www.elle.com

• I call his ['Straight Outta Compton'] story a Disneyland because it's an illusion. It is how he wanted it to be remembered, so that is how he portrayed it. And he had every right to do that. As did I.

  Michel'le

  Stories, Illusion, Compton

  Source: www.elle.com

• We had everything. We were young kids. We were driving cars our parents couldn't afford, living in big houses. For me to sit here and say, "Oh my God, I didn't enjoy any of it" - no, I did. Of course I did.

  Michel'le

  Kids, Car, Parent

  Source: www.elle.com

• Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.

  Michel'le

  Rap, Mass, Made

  Source: www.elle.com

• Then instead of introducing Dre as the guy from N.W.A., Jerry Heller would say Dre was my producer! Dre would come to my interviews with me - he'd come to all these places that would never have had the guy from N.W.A. Wasn't it genius?

  Michel'le

  Guy, Genius, Interviews

  Source: www.elle.com

• Rap was forbidden with the people who were interviewing us and the shows that I was getting [booked on], and I had kind of crossed over. So Jerry [Heller, who managed N.W.A.] would tell me, 'Do not say you're a rapper, always say you're R&B.'

  Michel'le

  Rap, People, Kind

  Source: www.elle.com

• I'm grateful. But Dre could not have done it without me. And I could not have done it without them.

  Michel'le

  Grateful, Done

  Source: www.elle.com

• Dre couldn't have given me those words to write, and he couldn't have given me that voice to sing. I couldn't have given him that musical talent or the ability that he has. What we made came from putting things together. I've always said that.

  Michel'le

  Writing, Voice, Musical

  Source: www.elle.com

• When I met Dre, N.W.A. didn't exist, nor did Michel'le. And I think we had a chemistry. When started working on my stuff, we created something that was phenomenal.

  Michel'le

  Thinking, Stuff, Chemistry

  Source: www.elle.com