All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I'm human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don't see the background.
From Missy Elliott
A lot of people don't know that before the artist, I wanted to be a writer and producer. That's always been a love of mine. Its easy for me to do it on myself, but it's fun to create for someone else.
I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.
I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.
He was like, 'I want to get in the studio with you.' Who turns down Pharrell?
What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels.
When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.
I don't just throw out microwave records.
Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics - like, how many times can we write about the clubs?
My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.
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