Quotes by Missy Elliott

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

What my home life is like now is great.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.

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

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

A lot of people don't do this. You can count on a couple of hands probably how many artists also produce and write, both for themselves and for others, and are able to be successful at both things.

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

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

I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.