Quotes from Missy Elliot

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

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

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

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.

What my home life is like now is great.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

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.

MC is a funny girl and always makes me laugh no matter what. I love her!

I love this city [Tel Aviv]!

I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

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.

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.

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.