Brandy Norwood

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

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, ’cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

I feel like I needed a balance. I don’t want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you’re gone.

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.

And I’m looking at him like, ‘Oh my God. This is Michael Jackson’. I fainted, blacked out – like seriously blacked out.

I’m quite sarcastic, and I’m funny, but not kind of funny. It’s a weird funny, and some people don’t get me, and some people do.

We (pop stars) are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use a bit of my art to put them over. I think music is one of the most powerful media forces in the world today.

Do you know how much hate mail I’ve gotten from people who love Mario Kart? … In one day, I managed to ruin half of America’s childhood and mushroom farming everywhere.

It’s OK to quote from your past. But I’m more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

I have to say, I’m really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date.

Parisian men make love all day and have no time to work; American men work all day and have no time for love.

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

If The Beatles or the 60’s had a message, it was ‘Learn to swim. And once you’ve learned – swim!’

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

[on Disney banning junk food adverts] I think when you can get an occupant of the White House behind you, particularly one as formidable and effective and passionate as Mrs. Obama, that can’t hurt

Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it’s like, “Ugh, kids!” Maybe that will change when I get older.

We’re all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn’t let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn’t let us watch ‘The Flintstones’ if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of ‘The Honeymooners’. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old ‘Honeymooners’.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

The trouble is now, with rock’n’roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.