I think timing is everything.
— Tionne Watkins
I feel naked without earrings. I'll pass out twice. It feels like I'm missing a body part.
One thing, parents: you need to realize is you've got to stop letting artists raise your kids. You're the parent. Why don't you monitor what your child wears? Ariana Grande didn't sign on to be a role model.
I don't know if I want her to sing it with us, but I'm curious to what type of song Taylor Swift would write for us. I'm curious to see what kind of pen she would write for TLC. Or like an Adam Levine. Somebody like that. They're phenomenal writers.
When my kid was five and playing with my camcorder. I don't like it. It makes it look fake looking, too much HD. I don't need to see your pores on TV, like why do I see your pores right here? That's not cool.
TLC is T-Boz, Lisa, and Chilli. That's it.
If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.
I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.
At the end of the day we feel the same; we all hurt.
I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.
I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put me on the defensive. I had to watch my back. It made me stronger because I learned how to deal with ignorance.
Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.
Don't sit there and wallow in woe-is-me stuff that happened in your past. Move forward. Face whatever you're afraid of. Or deal with it.
I've worked in the studio with a lot of young girls, and they'll go, 'Oh, the label is telling me to take off my clothes, and I don't feel comfortable.' Well if you don't feel comfortable, don't do it.
Some people criticize me for always wearing different variations of bobs, but bobs never go out of style.
When you Google someone's name, it matters to me what shows up. Not the lies, but like, did you change lives? Did you do something while you were here?
Just because I'm not dancing on a video every five seconds doesn't mean I'm not working.
You're always in a blessed position if you have a great success story, especially to be in a position to be able to tell it so people can even understand.
To have a body of work is a blessing - when you have songs that have been around generation after generation that they call timeless music, you can work that for a long time.
I have learned to smile when I wasn't happy, to sing when I didn't feel like it, and to do things just to please my fans.
What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.
Everything happens the way it's supposed to because it's just like cavemen - you evolve and grow and learn.
No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement - that's what makes us all different.
I'm never going to put another girl in my group. Never!
I had to learn a lot about myself during the situation with my brain tumor.
'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.
I'm not homophobic; I'm just not gay.
I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.
I was told I wouldn't live past 30 or have children.
I get nervous as hell when it's time for the songs to come out.
TLC never broke up. We are sisters for life.
I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell.
Whatever your hustle is, go somewhere with it.
Great music, timeless music is hard to come by, but there are some that are like that.
We were always authentic when it came to our style. From when we started to the height of our fame, we've always been consistent in our look because how we dressed was a result of how we felt. We weren't playing dress-up.
In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.
'Creep,' unfortunately, was one of my true stories.
There's vultures out here. You need to listen and learn.
Bell Biv Devoe, back in the day, we used to look up to them. They had incredible style back then, so we wanted to be like them.
The interesting thing about the TLC network is that they were interested in following me, not leading me.
At the end of the day, I do think there's a higher power, and the way I feel about things and choose to do things has an effect on that outcome.
If you want to live, you have to face your fears.
I'm not ashamed of anything I've done, because if I feel ashamed, I'm not going to do it in the first place.
I grew up around guys and got along with them better.
Music is my heart.
I'm hoping that somehow with songs like 'American Gold' there will be some kind of justice, and people just stop being so close-minded to where they're like, 'Oh, it's not race.' It's easy to say that when you're not black and you haven't experienced it.
It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out.
The doctors told me I could never have kids, but God blessed me anyway.
Good music is good music.
I remember getting flowers and champagne for being one of the first black artists on MTV. That was a big deal.
