Brandy Norwood

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

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

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

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

The mall is my life.

I’m always smiling and happy.

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people’s confidences out.

There’s nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that’s a fact.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?

If I could be anyone, I’d choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

I don’t want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

I was bored one day so my Dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun – I liked it for a job.

[on the harsh standards placed on women by Hollywood] It’s one of those endless competitions, but it’s like running a race toward nothing. “There’s no winning. You’re never going to win the thin race. You’re never going to win the pretty race. You’re never going to win the smart race. You’re never going to win the funny race. I just want to be the best version of myself I can be.

Honestly, the main takeaway from these two weeks is that, incredibly, we may be on the brink of electing such a damaged, sociopathic narcissist, that the simple presidential duty of comforting the families of fallen soldiers may actually be beyond his capabilities – and I genuinely did not think that was a part of the job that someone could be bad at.

I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I’ve lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

I was born in ’74, so I missed out on all the great early ’60s and early ’70s.

You haven’t been around here long, have you.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to – in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet – very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.