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I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.

I want to be an icon.

Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

I ain't no icon. It's people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that's an icon. I'm just Missy. I'm just crazy, that's all.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

It's always intimidating to meet an icon.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing.