Nicki Minaj

I came into this industry and demanded more. I wanted more for female rappers. I wanted more for black women. I wanted to make more than what men were making. And I did it. I did it

I like you baby, just not more than my work right now

I only mentioned people in Barbie Dreams that I f**k wit. This isn’t a diss. Yikes. This is culture, this is BIGGIE!!!!! New York!!!! This is FUN. Light hearted fun.

It’s a sport to me. I never want to get too complacent with my writing or my flow.

I love artists who take risks-I think they inspire everybody else about horrible situations that no one wants to discuss.

I have just been saying whatever the f**k I want. That’s always a breath of fresh air… everyone is so filtered these days. I’m just back to being reckless and being a Southside, Jamaica, Queens, New York rapper

There’s no point regretting things. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. Life’s too short to worry about things I’ve said.

I love Obama. I’m sure we’ll hang out, go to Richard Branson’s island. It’ll be cool.

As strange as movie making is, doing love scenes for the first time with someone you’ve never even said hello to does work in terms of having a fresh quality to a relationship

I had lots of breaks.

I can’t moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

He was going to make it. He had a passion for driving a car … Adam was never interested in anything else.

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don’t know who that’s attributed to. I think it’s Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.

We don’t want to be influenced, just informed.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t follow trends. I set them.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

I am a big Jeff Richmond fan.

[On Laura Nyro] Anything she wanted, I wanted to get for her.

Wafah Dufour bin Laden, niece of Osama bin Laden has signed a contract to star in a reality show…called Skating with the Nieces of Terrorists.