Nicki Minaj
I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that.
I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.
Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.
Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.
People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.
If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do.
It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.
The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
Respect your haters. They're the only ones who think you're better than them.Collection: Funny
You're not gonna tell me who I am. I'm gonna tell you who I am.Collection: Women
I put God first and do not allow other things to cloud my vision.Collection: Clouds
True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.Collection: Funny
Call it a curse, or just call me blessed, if you can't handle my worst, you ain't getting my bestCollection: Blessed
People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.Collection: Love You
I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you toldCollection: Breakup
Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.Collection: Fitness
Don't stay watching happiness, make it.Collection: Happiness
I'm a big deal That's why I get more head than a pigtailCollection: Bragging
Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're aliveCollection: Mean
I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.Collection: Determination
If I wasn’t winning you wouldn’t careCollection: Winning
If you don't have critics, you probably don't have success either.Collection: Hate
Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he calling me NyQuilCollection: Sleep
You can hate me, but why knock my hustle? I'ma be the queen no matter how they shuffle.Collection: Queens
Forget the haters, just get ya money, just get ya weight up.Collection: Hate
I think fashion has a lot to do with passion and that's where you get your inspiration.Collection: Fashion
I fly with the stars in the skies I am no longer trying to survive.Collection: Stars
Greatness is what we on the brink of.Collection: Greatness
Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.Collection: Bad Ass
I truly believe my haters are my motivators.Collection: Hate
I love my hair. But I don't even remember my original color because I started bleaching it so young. I was, like, 11.Collection: Hair
I'm in the collard green 6 cornbread in the guts Got the Halloween kicks trick or treat in the clutchCollection: Halloween
My money slow, my money stupid, money ditzyCollection: Money
As a designer, you always take facets of different people and you mix them together with your own thoughts and information and creativity and passion.Collection: Passion
See me in that new thing, bums is gagginCollection: Materialistic
I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.Collection: Money
For inspiration you go to the archives, you go to things of the past, but you still need to be contemporary for today. You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back.Collection: Inspiration
I just had a epiphany, I need to go to Tiffany'sCollection: Needs
Fendi on my slippers & my cookies always slipperyCollection: Cookies
But I'm alone on my throne All these richesCollection: Money
I think big, get cash, make em blink fastCollection: Money
Materialistic I'm narcissistic My shoe game is mean It's so sadisticCollection: Mean
Before I got signed, I was doing a lot of DVD's, and a lot of freestyles.Collection: Dvds
When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.Collection: Sex
I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican flyCollection: Song
Before the storm comes the calm. Hope you can take the heat like LeBronCollection: Storm
Clap for the heavy weight champ ME But I couldn't do it all alone WECollection: Humble
I know you want it, boy. I see you tryin. Just keep on pushin, I'm a let you slide in.Collection: Flirty