Nicki Minaj

I love being able to say, I’m not American, I’m Trini. I think it gives me so much more depth.

The truth of the matter is, trap has taken over so much that even our New York rappers are doing nothing but trap songs, because they feel that that’s the way to make it.

Do you know how many women get systematically blackballed out of their positions in an office building and can’t fight back?

The fact that I am a young woman who doesn’t need a man for money. I don’t need a man for a job. I’ve never had to f**k for beats. I’ve never had to f**k for a record deal. I don’t have those pressures. I get up when I want, shop when I want.

Tell her: jealousy is a disease, die slow.

If I say a rap and I laugh, that means it’s a winner.

I’m not that good looking… nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillow.

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it’s a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity!

I am a big Jeff Richmond fan.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to – in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet – very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

[on her role in “Star Wars: Episode II”] That was easy, I just stood by Natalie Portman looking very serious.

It’s sort of a feeling of power onstage. It’s really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don’t really think it’s power… it’s the goodness.

I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal agreement.

According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you to stop following [the minor] and choose to ignore that, keep following the minor, get into a confrontation with them, and if at any point during that process you get scared you can shoot the minor to death, and the state of Florida will say, ‘Well, look: you did what you could.’

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

Anthony Weiner’s alter ego is a Bolivian action hero slash porn star. ‘Danger… is my user name.’

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you’re gone.

Researches reported that they developed a ‘self-healing’ plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.