Toni Braxton
I love my family, I'll do anything for them.Collection: Family
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.Collection: Health
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.Collection: Dating
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.Collection: Marriage
I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Medical
I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.Collection: Sad
I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.Collection: Mom
I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.
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.
Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.
If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.
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.
If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.
I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.
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.
I love dishes and house things so I kind of lost it a little bit on the house ware. One-thousand thread-count sheets, that's what I indulged in.
You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.
Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.
I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
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 was a 10 million-plus selling artist.
I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.
I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.
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.
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Risk
I've always tried to be positive. There's a lot going on.Collection: Being Positive
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.Collection: Successful
Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I doCollection: Boots
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.Collection: Acting
How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.Collection: Love
...And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried.Collection: I Miss You
Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.Collection: Broadway
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.Collection: Passion
I can imagine you touching my private parts. With just the thought of you I can't help, but touch myself.Collection: Touching
I let everybody else's negative energy feed on me a little.Collection: Energy
Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Country
When I first go out on stage, there are tummy bubbles everywhere.Collection: Firsts
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.Collection: Idols
You can never go back to the first two albums in a career.Collection: Careers
If anyone did any harm to my children, I don't know what I would do.Collection: Children
It sometimes makes me feel sexy to wear something revealing. But I have gone too far. I have to be honest about that.Collection: Sexy
Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Sex
I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.Collection: Artist