Quotes from Toni Braxton

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

I've always tried to be positive. There's a lot going on.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.

I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then.

I don't smoke often, maybe once or twice a month, but it makes me feel sexy and romantic.

I love dishes and house things so I kind of lost it a little bit on the house ware. One-thousand thread-count sheets, that's what I indulged in.

I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.