I love this city [Tel Aviv]! — Missy Elliot

I love my mother. She’s my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. — Missy Elliot

Mc is a funny girl and always makes me laugh no matter what. I love her! — Missy Elliot

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

I mean, when it’s time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. — Missy Elliot

I felt like, ‘How do I fit in?’ But then I never fit in. The whole time, I’ve never fit in. — Missy Elliott

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

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. — Missy Elliot

What my home life is like now is great. — Missy Elliot

No, because I don’t want to hear what’s hot and feel I have to copy it. I’ll just make up my own thing. — Missy Elliot

When I create something, it’s got to be special, and it can’t just be to throw something out there because I feel like I’m Missy. — Missy Elliott

I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they’re just kickin’ it. — Missy Elliott

I gotta feel like what I’m giving the fans is 100 per cent and that it’s game–changing. I don’t just throw out microwave records. — Missy Elliot

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

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

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. — Missy Elliot

Maybe I should find myself one of those sexy British soccer stars. David Beckham is hot. But I’ve got a hell of a lot of competition. — Missy Elliott

I wasn’t born a superstar. — Missy Elliot

Breaking news: there is only one Missy. — Missy Elliott

I’d stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. — Missy Elliott

I’ve always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland. — Missy Elliot

Music should be your escape. — Missy Elliot

Hip–hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. — Missy Elliot

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 Elliot

I’m not tryin’ to come off as the best lyricist. — Missy Elliot

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. — Missy Elliot

Music is a male–dominated field. — Missy Elliott

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. — Missy Elliot

Everybody is doing the same old thing. — Missy Elliot

I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping. — Missy Elliott