Best 57 quotes of Nelly on MyQuotes

Be a mistress to none, but all good to some.

Bewitched is half of everything.

Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.

Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

Don't stop ever loving me, you can always smoke with me.

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.

Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

How many people out there really set a budget?

I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.

I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

If we dont heal our own hood, who will?

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

If you're fortunate to get a first album that sells 10 million you have nowhere to go but down. I'm just going to be honest and your measuring stick is so high that haters are licking their chops because you can't do nothing but fail.

I like my body so much more now since having my baby. It”s just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It”s been beautiful.

I like my body so much more now since having my baby.

I love New York for being New York. I love L.A. for being L.A. But when it comes home, I'm a Midwest, South type of dude. I like open roads, I like to drive, and it may not be as fast, but it's definitely a place where you get to appreciate a lot more. Not saying that you don't up here, but that's not what I'm accustomed to.

I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.

Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gun play.

I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.

I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.

I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.

I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that?

I think he's going down, ... It's gonna be the 'Revenge for O.J. '

I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing is when you take a whole generation and whip them out, string the mothers out and put the fathers in jail - the reason I know respect is because my father is the mediator between me and my grandfather. I'm the mediator between my son and my father because I'm old enough to understand where my father is coming from and young enough to understand what my kid is trying to do. When you whip out the mediator the kids run wild and the old people are scared of them.

I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

I wasn't a kid when I came out. Soulja Boy was 16. I'm saying that when he came out he was a kid so it was naturally a show for him. It's not about the music right away. It's a show for him. Not that he's not putting enough effort into his music, but how much effort can a 16 year old put into his music because as you mature and get older even the songs he's doing now has evolved and he's looking back.

I was slinging whatever I could get my hands on.  Whether it was chronic, whether it was crack.

Lifes strange ,times change, but karma always finds the way. Stay strong, hold on. Don’t let all your dreams fade away. Yeah life can beat you down, what goes it comes around It’s not how you hit the ground, it’s how fast you get back up. And go, keep going ,till it feels like I’m giving my life away Gets hard,and harder, happiness is worth the wait.

My father lead by fear.  I did what my father said ‘cause I was scared of getting my ass beat.  His voice rang so vividly in my head.  That it was just…a fear.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

My ultimate goal and our ultimate goal is to be individuals, to sustain what we been able to sustain.

My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.

Proceed to not smoke weed around the seed.

Rappers make what's in, in. If we want to bring back something like Jordache, we just say it and the girls start wearing it. We have a lot of pull.

Righteous willin, the only thing supreme swimmin'.

Smoke that herb and clear your mind.

So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.

Some people actually said I fell off at Nellyville cause I didn't sell as many as Country Grammar. I'm like are you kidding me? Sweat and Suit? I broke history, I was the first rapper to have 1st and 2nd album at the same time ever on billboard.

Sometimes a relationship is what falls cause it's not fair that, that person has to fit inside your life or you have to fit inside that person's life.

Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.

Sometimes I would ride with my daughter in the car to go make transactions.  A couple of times me, her and my baby mother would be in the car and you know we would kind of be riding dirty.  So like I said, again man, I was very naïve.