When you think of Missy, you can't say, 'Missy reminded me of someone else.' There was no Missy comparison before.
To this day, I remember vividly Missy Elliott, Ludacris, and my grandma riding in a golf cart to set. My grandma went back to Ohio and told her bowling friends, 'Guess what? I was riding to set with Missy and Ridiculous!'
If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love hearing them interviewed, I love the way they talk about their art. They're very self-assured, they're funny, they're inviting. I love it.
If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.
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.'
I got to speak to Missy Elliott on the phone and she was like, 'I see you and just keep doing your thing,' and to hear that was incredible.
Breaking news: there is only one Missy.
I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.
Somebody has to be sane during regular business hours, and it's not going to be me, missy.
If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there.
The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy.
I use people like Missy Elliott and Beyonce to inspire things I want to do.
Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.
I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.
Growing up, Missy Elliot and Janet Jackson were definitely major references.