Brandy Norwood

I can’t believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can’t believe I set foot on the same stage, and it’s going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it’s going to be a video.

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

It’s VH1, it’s everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.

It’s her first grandchild, so she’s really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.

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

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off

You know when you find a great dress, you’ve gotta hold on to it.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I’ve been happily married to my profession for years.

Everything I do stems from something personal, not just because it will look good on paper or be a tax write-off.

There are so few great talents, it’s always a discovery when you find the one.

If I had to describe (the past ten years) I would say ‘blessed’. Blessed and highly favoured, because the things that have happened to me have been once in a lifetime.

[on Frank Sinatra] He was a compassionate guy. He loved to have fun. He had a movie theatre in his house. We munched on popcorn and watched movies together.

I think it’s the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I’m not ashamed of that by any means.

[on her mom] She always knows what to do to cheer me up. Whenever I feel down, my mom will take me shopping or out to lunch. she’s 100% there for me, and always has been. My family keeps me going no metter what.

I’m a lot taller than I look on television and younger, and for the role of David Brent I wore a fat suit under my shirt and trousers. Really I’m about 25 and about 6′ 1 tall. So that’s probably why you don’t recognize me in the street.

I’m not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain’t me.

In my experience, there was never anything quite like the egos in CSNY.

When it comes down to the music, it’s just you and the microphone. It’s not you and the record execs.

It really bothers me when people don’t use coasters. Particularly on my table.

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I’ve had sex in trains, planes, wine bars… and quite a few car parks!