I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I’m just more in control; I finalize everything. — Toni Braxton

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

I’d lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy. — Toni Braxton

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

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. — Toni Braxton

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

When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon’s like, It was absolutely horrid. That’s what they tell in the music industry. — Toni Braxton

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I’ll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn’t work, I know I can’t do that. — Toni Braxton

You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it’s over. — Toni Braxton

I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It’s my passion. — Toni Braxton

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it’s the same for your heart. — Toni Braxton

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

I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don’t know what they’re doing today. Who’s to say I’ll be an exception to that rule? — Toni Braxton

I do have height envy. I’m 5’1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy. — Toni Braxton

The point may not be to make sense of the most difficult situations. It could be that we’re here to learn how to breathe through them. — Toni Braxton

If I’m uncomfortable, you’d never know. — Toni Braxton

I was a 10 million–plus selling artist. — Toni Braxton

I can’t record in the morning because I sound like Barry White. — Toni Braxton

I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated. — Toni Braxton

I know for works for me–those wonderful sad love songs. — Toni Braxton

I love my family, I’ll do anything for them. — Toni Braxton

And i can’t get you out of my head, how in the world will i begin to let you walk right out my life and blow my heart away? — Toni Braxton

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. — Toni Braxton

I’m not a diva. I’m a tadpole trying to be a frog. — Toni Braxton

I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me. — Toni Braxton

There are problems with the single already. I don’t want to put out the first single, Hit the Freeway. — Toni Braxton

Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me. — Toni Braxton

Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don’t want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor. — Toni Braxton

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That’s why I do what I do. — Toni Braxton

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them. — Toni Braxton

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. — Toni Braxton

Will people think I’ve been dropped? Oh God, you don’t want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped. — Toni Braxton

I’m in love with kid’s stories and animation. — Toni Braxton

You don’t want a whole bunch of yes people around you. — Toni Braxton

All I want is moonlight, with you there inside of me, all night, doing it again and again. You know I want you so bad. — Toni Braxton

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

Some people say I’m kinda country, but I like to take risks on fashion. I kinda go left sometimes, so you can get a taste of my personality. — Toni Braxton

It sometimes makes me feel sexy to wear something revealing. But I have gone too far. I have to be honest about that. — Toni Braxton

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful. — Toni Braxton

I’ve always been able to do sprinkles of hip–hop here and there in all my albums, but I’m not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that’s so hip–hop. — Toni Braxton

I can imagine you touching my private parts. With just the thought of you I can’t help, but touch myself. — Toni Braxton

I’m a businesswoman who’s serious about her money. I want an empire. — Toni Braxton