Toni Braxton Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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 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?

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.

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

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

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

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