Cardi B: "My personality is humongous."

Cardi B: "I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can't dream about it anymore. It's easier to settle for less."

Cardi B: "I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously."

Cardi B: "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."

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

Cardi B: "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."

Cardi B: "Libras like to take risks!"

Cardi B: "People are afraid to be themselves because people are afraid to be recorded. Everything is being recorded, and everyone is so sensitive. You say something; a section of people will be offended. It's so annoying; you got to be completely censored."

Cardi B: "I don't want my personality to overshadow my talent."

Cardi B: "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."

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

Cardi B: "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."

Cardi B: "Say yes to everything. 'You want me to buy you some food?' Yes. 'You want me to buy you a car?' Yes."

Cardi B: "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."

Cardi B: "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."

Cardi B: "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."

Cardi B: "I don't know how to drive."

Cardi B: "I feel like I’m missing some songs. Everybody’s rushing me to put it out, but I don’t know if it’s the right time. When I do interviews, I like to be in people’s faces. I hate Zoom meetings. They’re just so weird. I like to do listening parties. You can’t even tour. That sh*t’s wack as f*ck."

Cardi B: "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."

Cardi B: "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."

Cardi B: "It's never too early to get married now."

Cardi B: “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.”

Cardi B: "My hair was not bad because it was nappy. My hair was bad because I didn’t know how to take care of it."

Cardi B: "People always have crazy expectations, especially when it comes to female rap. It’s not like it’s a competition, but people are always comparing and comparing and comparing. It’s almost like they want to see you fail. I hate the feeling when I don’t do something really good. So I want my sh*t to be good because my last album did so well, and if this one doesn’t do well, I’m going to feel really sad."

Cardi B: "I was a loner; I was never the crazy party girl."

Cardi B: "I had a manager, and every time we would be in the car driving to bookings and sh*t, I always used to remix songs and he’d be like, 'Yo, you’re really quick and witty. You be having these bars.' And I was like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' He was like, 'I produced some songs before for Lil’ Kim. Why don’t you try doing music?' And I was like, 'Bro, I don’t want to waste my time. I just want to make f*cking money.' And he’s like, 'But this might make you money.' He kept telling me, 'You need to think bigger.' And that’s exactly what we did. We went to the studio, I did a song called 'Stripper Hoe,' and after a while, my goals started changing. Not only did I want to make money, but I wanted to be on the radio. In the strip club, I didn’t want people to just clap for me. I wanted them to sing my sh*t."

Cardi B: "I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month."

Cardi B: "When I got older, I started mixing formulas myself, because my mom is really old school. She thought, 'If I give her five ponytails with braids, that’s how her hair will grow.' But I didn’t want five ponytails. I wanted to go to school with a bun. I started bleaching my hair when I was very young, and from there on, I damaged it because I also permed it. But as you get older, you learn how to take care of yourself better, with everything."

Cardi B: "I cry sometimes. I get very upset."

Cardi B: “I’ve been hanging around a lot of people that’s wealthy, that is rich, that is famous. One thing I learned is that no matter how much money you have, no matter how big you are, how famous you are, they will still end up stealing your charger and your lighter.”

Cardi B: “Never get the credit I deserve, if it wasn’t for me you b*tches wouldn’t be heard.”

Cardi B: "I do feel kind of guilty sometimes 'cause, like, I could buy myself a $5,000 dress or a $3,000 dress, and I'm buying these things, but I'm knowing that my cousin need money for the rent. And then I gotta tell myself, 'Stop feeling guilty. You worked for this.'"

Cardi B: “If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it.”

Cardi B: "My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late."

Cardi B: “I don’t care about anyone not liking me. You b*tches barely like yourselves.”

Cardi B: “Do whatever you have to do. People always want to tell you how to do it. No, do it your way. And don’t ask for like, ‘Oh how can you do it?’ Do it. Figure it out. I figured it out one way or another and I did it.”

Cardi B: “Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No. I just gotta focus on making money. Cause ain’t no going back. I’m gonna be famous forever.”