Missy Elliott

I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.