Brandy Norwood

I just feel my sexuality is private. I’m very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I’ve sold millions of records with my clothes on.

I’m always smiling and happy.

I’ve been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I’m working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I’ve done so far.

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

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.

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I’ll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I’m not trying to lose weight.

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know whatever you do, they’ll still be there.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

My grandma is probably the only person on this planet that I still remember their home number by heart

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn’t bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can’t buy love.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

My #1 priority is being a mother as well and I can work too, so can you!

[On his mother] She certainly ran her own race… I thought my mother was nuts.

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

I’ve always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I’m right on schedule.