Missy Elliott Quotes

Missy Elliott

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 1, 1971

Music should be your escape.

Missy Elliott

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.

Missy Elliott

I talked about my father being abusive to my mother - people have never heard me talk about anything like that. That brings people a little bit more personal with Missy.

Missy Elliott

You get people who rap about stuff that they don't do all day long. Half those guys, you hear them on the radio, and then you meet them, and you're like, 'Wow. They're so sweet.'

Missy Elliott

I always feel the need to work as if I don't have a deal, because that's what's going to keep me around for a long time.

Missy Elliott

I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids.

Missy Elliott

I do Dance Dance Revolution. I'm not as good as the little kids that come in the arcade. Their little feet go crazy fast. I'm not that fast, but I'm good on it!

Missy Elliott

It feels different.... When hip-hop was beginning for me, people weren't making the kind of money that they make now. It was for the love of doing it and having fun with it.

Missy Elliott

It could be hectic sometimes when you're being an artist and running a label at the same time. But there are times when you just have to say that this my time period to work on my stuff, and then you say this is the time to concentrate on my artists.

Missy Elliott

No matter what I'm doing for myself or someone else, I'm constantly writing and working on other people's albums.

Missy Elliott

I believe that tracks speak to me. Some tracks make me write certain music or make me feel sad or inspire me to write a sad love song. Each track has its feeling to me.

Missy Elliott

Its funny, because for females in general - not just in music, but the corporate ladder as well - anything we do has always been harder for us. When it comes to music, the industry wants you to conform, to look like this and to sound like this and do this or that. It makes it harder. It's harder for us to come out and be bosses and lead the pack.

Missy Elliott

A lot of people don't know that before the artist, I wanted to be a writer and producer. That's always been a love of mine. Its easy for me to do it on myself, but it's fun to create for someone else.

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I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.

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I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

Missy Elliott

He was like, 'I want to get in the studio with you.' Who turns down Pharrell?

Missy Elliott

What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels.

Missy Elliott

I don't just throw out microwave records.

Missy Elliott

Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics - like, how many times can we write about the clubs?

Missy Elliott

I never drank water. Always soda. I didn't use to like water, but I've had to train myself to drink it.

Missy Elliott