Brandy Norwood

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.

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.

I take conscious breaks for myself ’cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it’s important.

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’ve just got to get that album out. I have to get it out, if it’s the last thing I do.

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

If you sold out the Troubadour, that was it.

Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying “like” all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.

The crime rates among immigrants once [in the United States] are in relatively tiny digits, which is something Donald Trump should frankly understand given that he has ten of them attached to his miniscule wrists.

I still find trusting people quite hard. I’ve got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that’s it. It’s something I’ve got to sort out-I cut people off.

[on The Who’s performance at Woodstock] It was the worst gig we ever played.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

I don’t have a recollection of mostly anybody I’ve hung out with.

I was quite intimidated by Ralph Fiennes. I didn’t really talk to him while I was doing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and the only thing I did with him was when he stepped on my head. Then I went to this play and he was there. And this girl said, “you’ve worked with Ralph Fiennes haven’t you, Robert?” and I was like, “well, no…” and Ralph said, “yes, I stepped on your head.” And that was the extent of our conversation.

The music beckons to those who are listening.

I think we’re a band with a lot of history now so it’s nice to come up with something that doesn’t have any history at all.

All I could think about was, ‘I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.’

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

If you have physical attractiveness you don’t have to act.

Let’s start with the church. As you know, it’s my background, it’s a natural setting for me and it’s definitely my roots.

I like the red carpet. It’s like acting because it’s like a fairytale.