Feel Quotes

'Soul Train' means so much to me.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Me Much Means

Before Missy, there was no comparison to what Missy was doing.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Doing Before Comparison

I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Best Come Off

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

Missy Elliott

Tags: Want Most Kids

What my home life is like now is great.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Great Home Like

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

Missy Elliott

Tags: Time You Any

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

Missy Elliott

Tags: Music Always Had

The person I eventually find will have to like me and my style.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Me Like Will

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Day Person Down

I got to feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 percent and that it's game-changing.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Like Feel Got

If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Me Life Way

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

Missy Elliott

Tags: Time Like Never

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

Missy Elliott

Tags: Home Me About

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

Missy Elliott

Tags: Just Little Girl

I still represent for overweight adults and kids, but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Health Am I Am

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 Elliott

Tags: Music Women Always

I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Me Want Them

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

Tags: Lot Got Those

I always said if a man would have done half the records that I've done, we would know about it. But we don't know all the records I've done for other artists.

Missy Elliott

Tags: About Always Know

When something is so hot, I don't want to just jump on it right away. I want to take it home and make sure I give it my best shot.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Best Home Just

My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating.

Missy Elliott

Tags: You Because Get

Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down.

Missy Elliott

Tags: You People Just

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

Tags: Music Sad Me

Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you're trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record.

Missy Elliott

Tags: You Like Really

I felt like, 'How do I fit in'? I'm battling. But then I never fit in!'... I thank God for somebody like Pharrell who stayed in my ear. For him, at that time, 'Happy' was everywhere; he didn't have to share anything with me.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Time God Me

I remember, in school, writing Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson and asking them to come get me out of class. I would imagine them running down the hall and asking my teacher, 'Ms. Daniels, can we get Missy out of class? We're here to see Missy.'

Missy Elliott

Tags: Teacher Me Get

Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I'm nice, but I'm very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Me Because Get

I try not to be cruel to people. I know there's a karma, and I'm constantly thinking of my blessings. I live and die by being a Baptist. If I can't go to church on a Sunday, I'll get a tape by the Clark Sisters and slide it in for the day.

Missy Elliott

Tags: People Get Know

Don Cornelius was a genius. He created a show where he was breaking artists' songs. If you were on his show, he made the consumer want to go out and purchase your music. He will be greatly missed. If they ever try to recreate what he did, it has to been done right, authentic and real with soul! That's what Don displayed.

Missy Elliott

Tags: Music You Out