Toni Braxton Quotes

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.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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?

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 know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

First thing early Monday morning
I'm gonna pack my tears away
Got no cause to look back
I'm lookin' for me a better day

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

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.

If anyone did any harm to my children, I don't know what I would do.

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

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

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.

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

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

And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

And i can't get you out of my head,
how in the world will i begin
to let you walk right out my life
and blow my heart away?

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

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.

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.

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.

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.