Brandy Norwood

I love basketball.

Music is all I know.

My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it’s magical.

I’m always smiling and happy.

I’ve seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn’t matter how we met. We met. I don’t want to say that we’re a couple. I can definitely say that he’s somebody in my life, and I’m definitely interested but I’m not serious with anybody.

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.

I absolutely adore and idolize women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I’ve met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.

No, I don’t talk to Carly – that’s sort of the point about divorce.

[On husband Ryan Phillippe] I don’t think I can imagine a better guy than the one I’ve ended up with.

City Action. Al is a true Damon Runyon character

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

I love hearing educated people talk and just shut everyone up. Knowledge is always the loudest voice.

I have standards I don’t plan on lowering for anybody, including myself.

God gave us a penis and a brain, but not enough blood to use both at once.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I’m never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It’s a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

I think women are very powerful and I think we’re more powerful together than separate.

[when asked if she had ever been asked to “sex it up” a little] I’m more of the down-home – I guess, you know, the good-old girl. Being sexy is kind of funny to me. You know, I can get kind of spunky or I can get tough, you know, that kind of tough, sexy look. But sexy? No, I don’t think so. Just what you see is what you get on me. And it’s never been anything of a sexual nature.

For a while I was like, “Oh my God, anyone that would release an album as an actor is the biggest fool ever”, but I happened to have sung all my life before I was an actor. Why are musicians allowed to become actors? No one ever gives them flack for that.

If you really love someone, you shouldn’t have to work at it. You finish each others’ sentences and have the same sense of humor.

Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don’t look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.