Brandy Norwood

I can’t believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can’t believe I set foot on the same stage, and it’s going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it’s going to be a video.

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you’re not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

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

I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don’t wear much makeup.

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

The mall is my life.

I pay my mama’s bills, I ain’t got no time to chill.

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess – she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn’t be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I’ve been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that’s meant a life of one-nighters.

Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

My father was a perfectionist. We had to hop to everything and have marvelous table manners. I could only wear navy blue and gray and white. He wanted me to be interested in tennis and horses just like a little princess, but I couldn’t stand such things.

Maybe that’s all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

There’s a reason why people who’ve had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did my mother. I believe that I just have it from my father, from my parents. They had wonderful energy.

Always remember your kid’s name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don’t let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers … for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form. – Jeffrey Kluger