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.
— Toni Braxton
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 do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.
If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.
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.
I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.
I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.
I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.
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.
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.
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.
Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.
I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.
If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.
To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.
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.
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.
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'm in love with kid's stories and animation.
I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.
I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.
You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.
