Nicki Minaj

“Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.”

“Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.”

“Everyone knows I'm a lash girl by now. When I don't have my lashes, I feel naked.”

“I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.”

“But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.”

“I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities.”

“But had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.”

“People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.”

“I say nice things about Mariah all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.”

“I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.”

“I don't have to do things just to please people. It's okay to do what I love because what I love, my fans love. And they're really the only ones that should matter.”

“I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be.”

“My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.”

“Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?”