If I didn`t have some kind of education, then I wouldn`t be able to count my money.

She`s hot, ... Soon as I heard her album I thought, `I gotta get this girl on my album.` I`m good at spotting new sounds, and M.I.A. is definitely the artist right now with that sound.

Feel Good, Inc.

[Tim fans need not despair: Pop music`s greatest producer will be reunited with his favorite muse.] I`m quite sure that Tim and I are going to be together, ... It`s not like we had an argument and aren`t talking. Tim`s my brother and always will be.

I got to thank God because that`s my inspiration for everything that I do.

It was both scary and liberating, ... When you`ve been working with someone for that many albums, you feel the world won`t be able to accept you without him.

Lose Control.

I`m kind of speaking for the females, ... what`s in our mind if we could get revenge, what it would be like. Not to say that we would do it — because we would be locked up if you go by my video version of it — but just in our minds, if we could have our way with a relationship gone bad. So it`s crazy.

Missy is still going to be Missy. Whatever I get on, it`s still me. If I do a record with Madonna or Mariah Carey, even if I did a record with Faith Hill, it`s still going to be a Missy record.

I was in `Thriller,`

The double chin`s not good for the red carpet.

I`d stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. People would roll down their windows saying, "Isn`t she cute?". I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage. At family picnics they`d put me on the table and I`d just start singing.