Music should be your escape.
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
If I didn’t have some kind of education, then I wouldn’t be able to count my money.
Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.
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.
Everybody is doing the same old thing.
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.
I’m not a prostitute but I can give you what you want.
I got a mother who’s very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.
I wasn’t born a superstar.
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.
I mean, when it’s time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.
You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.
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.
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.
I didn’t want to be a genius! That ain’t cool.
My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people’s projects.