Nicki Minaj

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.

When people apologize to me sincerely, I accept it. It’s really never too late to right your wrongs.

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

You know my heart couldn’t take it.

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.

You’d be surprised how much fun you start to have once ya stop giving A f**k.

Friends don’t lie.

There are no mistakes, only opportunities.

Thats the worst thing, I dont really care if people say I’m a bad actor, I can like work on that, but if they just say that he’s ugly thats just like “oh.. really?”

I don’t care how small the game. I want to win.

I’ve deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

If I were running ‘The View’, I’d fire Rosie O’Donnell. I mean, I’d look at her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I’d say ‘Rosie, you’re fired.’

When I’m no longer rapping I want to open up an ice-cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: ‘No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat.’

Amy Poehler made it clear that she wasn’t there to be cute. She wasn’t there to play wives or girlfriends in the boys’ scenes. She was there to do what she wanted to do and she did not f**king care if you like it.

I have Faith Popcorn on retainer. I’m sorry-what I meant to say is that I have popcorn stuck in my retainer.

I’ve gotten to a point with fashion where I just don’t care. I wear and I do what I want because I like it, because I am confident in it, because it makes me feel good. That’s the only way you can do it.

[On turning down the chance to appear in Ocean’s Twelve] Why say a couple of lines opposite Brad Pitt when I could be playing lead back home?

I don’t like my feet. I’m not crazy about anybody’s feet. But I have flat feet.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.