Toni Braxton Quotes

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

I can imagine you touching my private parts. With just the thought of you I can't help, but touch myself.

Some people say I'm kinda country, but I like to take risks on fashion. I kinda go left sometimes, so you can get a taste of my personality.

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

When I first go out on stage, there are tummy bubbles everywhere.

I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting.

Will people think I've been dropped? Oh God, you don't want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it's over.

I've always tried to be positive. There's a lot going on.

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

All I want is moonlight, with you there inside of me, all night, doing it again and again. You know I want you so bad.

I don't smoke often, maybe once or twice a month, but it makes me feel sexy and romantic.

I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then.

I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do

It sometimes makes me feel sexy to wear something revealing. But I have gone too far. I have to be honest about that.

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.

I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I'm just more in control; I finalize everything.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.

I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon's like, It was absolutely horrid. That's what they tell in the music industry.

There are problems with the single already. I don't want to put out the first single, Hit the Freeway.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It's my passion.

I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say I'll be an exception to that rule?

Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.

I let everybody else's negative energy feed on me a little.

Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.

My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

You can never go back to the first two albums in a career.

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me.

I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

I do six shows a week. Sometimes my voice gets tired, but I love it.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.