Quotes By Brandy Norwood

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.

This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.

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.

When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how much I wanted to meet Michael Jackson, so he says, 'Would you like to come and meet him?' I'm like, 'Are you serious? Of course I want to meet Michael Jackson! Where do I meet you? Where do we come?'

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

The more natural, the better.

I wanna sing about something that's sexy and edgy.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.

I don't know where to find a good guy. I just think that they're around and I think you have to be good and at some point you'll attract that. I really believe that. First, people should stop looking. The looking thing does not work. Just let love find you.

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 think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.

Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I'm going to be a real mommy.

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

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

I'm a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It's very scary. I'm open to it, but I just want to make sure that I'm taking my time.

Music is all I know.

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

And I'm looking at him like, 'Oh my God. This is Michael Jackson'. I fainted, blacked out - like seriously blacked out.

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 knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.

I certainly didn't want to date. I was through with guys.

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

It may not be the best in someone else's eyes, but it's the best I can do.

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that's why I'm so happy to be back!