Nicki Minaj

If I had to describe (the past ten years) I would say ‘blessed’. Blessed and highly favoured, because the things that have happened to me have been once in a lifetime.

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.

There are things that I do that feminists don’t like, and there are things that I do that they do like. I don’t label myself.

I prayed to God for peace and love, I’m looking at you as a blessing. You told me life been looking up so take that past shit as a lesson.

Boys love being bossed around by me tho…

The same kind of boys always like me. The ones that easily get their feelings hurt. Ugh! Then they try to get my attention by doing something dumb but I’m too busy to notice

I have a suspicion that the definition of “crazy” in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f*** [sleep with her] anymore.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it’s a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

The good Lord doesn’t tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

I don’t now what situation they came from and I don’t know what they were offered to go somewhere else. It’s the times now, There’s not a any loyalty for anyone or anything – a whole lot. Wherever the money’s at, that’s where they’re going, so I don’t blame them. They’ve got just a few years to get it done and if they don’t get it done then, then they aren’t going to get it done.

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don’t waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy… people who don’t have no food… Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I’ve always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

My dream job is being a pianist.

[on accepting his CBE] I owe everything to the musicians I work with. From the UK to Africa to Tennessee, it is their brilliance that I bounce off. Alone I’m nothing.

If you keep running, you’ll get something.

That’s when I realized that as long as you don’t broadcast your beefs, you can get away cold with murder. It’s even better if you don’t allow the beef to take place. If someone disrespects you, you can know in your heard that you’re going to get him, but you don’t have to show him there’s a beef. You can just look at it like, Okay, this nigga must not know. And then you fall back and you put it down.

I try to keep my ego at the right size. No matter what, I just do my best to live in an attitude of gratitude.

I couldn’t have asked for a better target than Trump

I don’t know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

I’d probably say I’m very strong. If somebody says something horrible, I’m like, ‘Okay, whatever.