Top 35 Missy Elliot Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Music should be your escape.”

— Missy Elliot

2. “I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it.”

— Missy Elliot

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

— Missy Elliot

4. “I wasn’t born a superstar.”

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5. “I want to be cutting-edge.”

— Missy Elliot

6. “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

7. “Everybody is doing the same old thing.”

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

— Missy Elliot

9. “I didn’t want to be a genius! That ain’t cool.”

— Missy Elliot

10. “If I didn’t have some kind of education, then I wouldn’t be able to count my money.”

— Missy Elliot

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

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

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

— Missy Elliot

14. “I’ve always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.”

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15. “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

16. “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

17. “I’m not a prostitute but I can give you what you want.”

— Missy Elliot

18. “The double chin’s not good for the red carpet.”

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19. “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

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

— Missy Elliot

21. “People ask, “What do you think about being called Puff Mommy?” Puff’s a very successful young man, so I don’t have a problem if that’s what they wanna call me. If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that’s way, way complimentary. That’s something I’ll cherish for life.”

— Missy Elliot

22. “I’m close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.”

— Missy Elliot

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

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

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25. “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

26. “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

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

— Missy Elliot

28. “Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.”

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29. “I’m going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I’m starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, “No more, please! It’s too much!””

— Missy Elliot

30. “Lil Wayne is a person who I think is really deserving of the success he’s had. I’m someone who can stay in the studio 24-7, and I’ve watched him stay in there just as long. He has a creativeness about him that I love.”

— Missy Elliot

31. “I really enjoy writing and producing for other artists. Some people save their best songs for their own albums. I’d rather give another artist one of my songs. At the end of the day, it still represents me.”

— Missy Elliot

32. “When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn’t go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist – so that’s what I did.”

— Missy Elliot

33. “I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don’t joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.”

— Missy Elliot

34. “I got a mother who’s very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.”

— Missy Elliot

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35. “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

36. “I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.”

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37. “What my home life is like now is great.”

— Missy Elliot