Toni Braxton Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.