Brandy Norwood

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don’t spend quality time with them and you don’t pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn’t matter that they’re just around you.

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I’m going to be a real mommy.

It may not be the best in someone else’s eyes, but it’s the best I can do.

I’m going to let people know that it’s cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It’s really tough, but I’m doing it.

I think it’s really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what’s going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that’s the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.

America’s Got Talent’ has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV.

There’s probably not a crew chief out there who hasn’t tried something that seemed like a good idea.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

When in trouble, take a bath and wash your hair.

I’ve been a life-time member of the Black Country community and I’m supporting the Wolverhampton Youth Zone. I think it’s a very welcome and crucial addition to the life of kids in our area.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It’s not forbidden anymore.

Dammit, interviews are not what I do.

I don’t take gifts from perfect strangers-but then, nobody is perfect.

That’s exactly what Dale Sr. was going to do. It was, ‘When I quit, I’ve got somewhere to go. I’ve spent my money, made my name. This is where I want to be.’ Junior is in the same suit.

That is not a functional use of language. That is a drunk driver crashing a pickup truck full of alphabet soup.

I just asked her to support me in this one thing. It’s not a big lie. She should have understood that I was just trying to sell the song to America’s premier songstress.

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It’s like listening to a song – I mean, a story. If you’re going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don’t want to make them up.

I believe I could do dance on ice, or play in a musical of Freud’s life called ‘It’s Your Mother’ – or maybe one for the symbolists: ‘Jung at Heart’. There’s always the one about India: ‘The Gandhi Man Can’.

A friend of mine had this great theory about the “Teletubbies”, that it’s preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. When they build the underground world because we can no longer breathe the air that it will look like Teletubbie land.

My worst habit is speaking to much.