Brandy Norwood

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, ’cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

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.

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

When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.

Even when you know you want to do something, know that it will be good for you, that you’ll enjoy [performing] when you’re doing it, the anxiety is telling you a different story. It’s a constant battle within yourself.

Think of our government as a body. The IRS is the anus. It’s nobody’s favorite part, but you need that thing working properly or everything goes to shit real quick.

I guess you have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110% and don’t give up!

Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live tv.

In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I’m sorry, did I say ‘scientists’? I meant ‘Irish people.’

It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I’m sure that he wouldn’t like the prospect of it put to him, and I won’t even go there with Eminem.

I’m pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I’m not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

The women’s movement hasn’t changed my sex life. It wouldn’t dare.

It’s nice having famous people love you.

My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

So it’s an aging product that’s decreasing in popularity and yet somehow it just can’t stop making money. It’s basically the agricultural equivalent of U2.

Left to my own devices, I dress like I’m here to service your aquarium.