Quotes from Trina

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

How I try to balance relationships and being in the public eye is not telling people my business. That's what makes it work for me.

You gotta keep on pushing the envelope and pushing the door until you get to where you're trying to go. You're the person that's gotta make that happen. No matter what team's behind you, if you don't put the effort behind it, it's not gonna work.

I don't feel like there's any artists in the game that have been as creative as Missy Elliott. I feel like she's a genius and she deserves all her flowers.

I'm a girly girl. I love nothing more than putting on makeup and getting my hair done.

In this business, I've learned to discipline myself. But I must say through the whole journey, I've learned so much and it's been a beautiful career. But it hasn't always been glamour and glitz. I've definitely experienced some stumbles and flops along the way.

Women are undeniably the most beautiful creatures.

On the second album, I kind of laid down a little bit because there's a different respect level, people want to know if you're classy or if you're still raw.

Meek is a great artist and he's very focused.

I'm not stepping off my throne to address no bum, no chicks that are beneath me and nobody that hasn't worked as hard as I worked for anything.

Receipts' was meaning, I'm going in. I'm gonna invest in everything that I want, and that is more to myself, and my business, to make it be exactly what I want.

I think it's important for a woman to always look good and present herself in a respectable manner.

I don't feel like a lot of the men, especially men in power, stand up in their position and hold on to the women who are about to fall over the Titanic and make sure the ship doesn't sink. It doesn't feel like that and I think that it should be.

Nobody can stop your reign. Nobody can tell you what's good, what's not good, how to talk, or how nasty your song can be. The song can be as nasty as you want to be, if that's what you want it to be.

I'm always good to try something at least once. If I don't like it then I'm not doing it, but I love to try to stay in shape. I've tried spinning for an hour and a half, which was torture.

I worked with Tory Lanez.

I prefer to do absolutely nothing. I love to relax. But, if there's a beach around that's where you'll find me.

I'm a savage. I'm hungry. I'm a beast.

You really got to be hustling, you got to really be on your grind... you have to be a person that people want to listen or learn from.

Guys are usually the tougher, make-it-happen no-matter-what kind of thing.

I've been in the game so long and I've been around a bunch of guys and sometimes they don't even like each other, but they'll be in the same room, they're on the same record, they're in the same video. It's just all about the business and it's not personal. With women, it's always personal and emotional. We can be envious and insecure.

The only person I'm in competition with is myself. That's to be a better, and bigger me every single day.

Me and Eve are like biological sisters.

My mom's real cool. We're like sisters. My father wasn't there, but she was always there.