Missy Elliott

"Because nobody knows your vision better than you do. Nobody can tell your story as you can. You have to live it."

"So always fight for yourself and believe in yourself and your vision."

"And it’s okay to say, ‘Hey, I’m not okay today.’"

"Be the truest form of yourself. If you go with what everybody else is doing you may risk falling into the crevices and the cracks, because there's so many people doing the same thing."

"When I create music, it's not just about the song. I have to visually see something in my head too."

"Whatever you’re doing, if you feel like you’re in this place, and it seems to be working, stay there. Don’t allow other things to make you second-guess yourself, as long as it feels good to you."

"People don’t realize that artists are sensitive or that they have feelings."

"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."