Cardi B

I'm surprised Beyonce liked me. I met Beyonce!

That was an organic relationship. He reached out to me, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I cannot believe somebody like Laquan Smith wants to put his clothes on me.' He comes from a small place, and he has big dreams, and what I like about him the most is that his clothes curve with your body.

A lot of designers, they did tell me no. They didn't really wanna work with me.

I'm not domestic. I think I will be. I love kids. I really want to have a kid, but I'm not a domestic person.

What I'm trying to say to girls is don't let these guys be in your head.

I just feel like I influence people because I'm like - I was practically homeless.

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

When I do music, I don't feel like it's competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don't like thinking like that. And I don't understand why they do that to women and, especially, women in hip-hop.

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

No man wants to accept they could be getting used for money. But it's OK for them to let us know that they use us?

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.

People should listen to my music because it's good.

It's never too early to get married now.

I'm a woman. Every woman, I think, wants to get married and wants to have children.

I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.

No one calls me Belcalis except for my family, my mother, and my daddy.

My sister's name is Hennessy, so everybody used to be, like, 'Bacardi' to me. Then I shortened it to Cardi B. The 'B' stands for whatever, depending on the day... beautiful or bully.

When women come up to me like, 'I am a freaking senator,' or, 'I'm a doctor,' it's like, 'Damn, y'all like me? I look up to y'all!'

It's not that people want to be like me, but some want to say the things I say and can't because they're afraid. I say it for them.

I'm not as open as I used to be. I'm a little bit more filtered, and it kind of sucks, but it's the price you pay to get paid.

I'm on my phone 24-7. I see everything. I hear everything. I am the voice of the streets.

Instagram has said plenty of times that I'm pregnant, Instagram has said a lot of things about me that are not true, so I don't even know where that's coming from.

I'ma sound like all your favorite rappers.

I could really make a song of hurt, because I've been hurt by a lot of men. I'm talking about, like, how sad I be when a dude curves me. And I never talk about that because I refuse to let people know that I get sad because when a man don't answer my calls.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.

I don't want to live in a small Bronx apartment. I don't want to have three kids that got to share one room.

This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.

I yam who I yam; I'm not somebody, like, standard.

Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with.

What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn't regret anything that I ever did... I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up.

My Instagram got deleted a lot of times. I used to do rough jokes and curse a lot.

Whatever hair color I have on my head, that's what decides what type of outfit I'm going to wear, because not everything goes with your hair color. That's why I switch it up.

You can't tell me that I can't dress!

I love Lady Gaga. When I was in high school, I really wanted to dress like her.

Libras like to take risks!

That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.

It's not even the female rappers that are catty - it's the fans. They just want that beef.

When I was 19, 20, 21, I wasn't extremely thick.

I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.

I don't feel like anyone should follow what I did.

I'm about this shmoney.

I cannot turn my life back around. I'm already a public figure, I'm famous... It's like, I might as well keep it going, might as well make the money.

I'll do something that brings me a check.

We might as well be true with ourselves.

I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.

I'm so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, 'Ayyyy!' No matter if you a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, it comes out.

I need to make money for my family and my future family. I'm not a YOLO person.