Nicki Minaj

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

Bitches don’t know if they wanna hate you or be you. Lemme change that. Bitches hate you cuz know they’ll never be you.

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

No matter how tired I am, whenever I see you guys, my energy goes to a billion.

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

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

If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’!

I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.

I used to sleep nude – until the earthquake.

I can do the Chipmunk voice and impressions of Judy Garland, Debbie Reynolds and Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music. I could probably do the whole Von Trapp family.

Very rarely artists come in on their own terms and get to do everything – whatever they want…it doesn’t really matter about talent in the beginning. Talent is what keeps you here, getting in the door is just about how you start in the music business.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

Make Statements also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure? I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

I’m a blowfish. I’m not a shark, I’m a blowfish. So that perfect example about me hitting my head, it’s like a blowfish. I wasn’t coming out of my house going to a paparazzi’s house to attack them. I’m defending my family in front of my own house. I’m defending my name as someone’s screaming something negative at me. That’s a blowfish. People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

Working with someone like Dustin Hoffman is a huge honor and, after you kind of get through that, you’re frightened about working with a screen legend, and I was just in awe.

God gave us a penis and a brain, but not enough blood to use both at once.

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

I guess I was a floater, but not really. I don’t know. I didn’t get high school.

Besides, I’m a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

If you’re a singer, you can never say this is where the voyage ends, the job is never done. Once you have got it, you cannot sit on it. I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is. I have to find a new place to ply my trade, to get lost in another place, and locate myself again. I’m an older man now and so it’s even more important.