Brandy Norwood

The more natural, the better.

This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I’m doing.

I take conscious breaks for myself ’cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it’s important.

Music is all I know.

To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.

So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that’s why I’m so happy to be back!

I think every kid needs to get a taste of what it’s like to do that real hard work.

If you’re bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don’t think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Once you’re grown up you can’t come back.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents, are their most important role models.

We’re all mad here.

We weren’t wealthy but we definitely weren’t poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd’s Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

You don’t want to be with a boy who is too stupid to appreciate a smart young lady. There is no boy who is cute enough or interesting enough to stop you from getting your education.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury.

I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we’d done it in England, there’s no reason why we couldn’t do it in America too.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.