Nicki Minaj

The things that people do come so easy to me. I could do it in my sleep. But I’m such a perfectionist that when something is too easy to me, I actually feel guilty.

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

I feel like true icons shift music, uplift music, switch music, have the balls to take a chance.

Abstaining from sex had to zen my body. I ain’t giving, so don’t ask, I don’t lend my body. He gotta be king status to get in my body.

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

I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!

I take conscious breaks for myself ’cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it’s important.

Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.

Democracy is like a tambourine – not everyone can be trusted with it.’

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn’t care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don’t like people. It’s not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

Oh but I’m serious this time. Take your American history books, burn them in the streets, they’re worthless after Tuesday. Why? The senate is up for grabs. I repeat – the f**king senate is up for grabs!

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs… I’d still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I’d still be doing it if I didn’t blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

The memories of a man in his old age, are the deeds of a man in his prime.

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend and dogs are a man’s best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

I’ve sort of heard that “it” girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn’t solidify it in my mind and I wouldn’t know how to solidify that title. It’s so elusive and what does it mean, I don’t know?

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

On the TV show that I just did, I worked with a female director called Ryan Case who is amazing. [But] it suddenly occurred to me on my second day of filming with her that I’ve been doing this since I was nine — so that’s like 19 years now — and she’s the first female director I’ve worked with on screen. And that is crazy. When I actually step back, that is an insane thing.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.