43 Quotes by Kelis

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

I'm a really emotional cook. Not violent, but I don't like someone coming in while I'm cooking. I'm notorious for themed dinner parties. The colour green, 'The Sopranos' last episode... any excuse. But if anyone arrives before I'm ready and walks through for a chat, I'm like: 'Just stand back. Stay there! In fact, just go - this is not for you.'

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.

I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.

My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.

People know 'Milkshake' like a jingle, but they don't really know who I am.

My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.

The album 'Kelis Was Here' sucked the life out of me, and so I went off and studied to be a Cordon Bleu chef. What's great about food is that it's less about who you know and what you look like, and more about if you're any good.

I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that's because, especially if you're in the States, if you're black and you sing, then you're R&B.