Missy Elliott Quotes & Sayings

“Music should be your escape.”

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

“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.”

“I wasn't born a superstar.”

“I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.”

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

“I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.”

“I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.”

“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.”

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