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
Dating is different when you get older. You’re not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone. – Toni Braxton
I’ll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same. – 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
Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I’d pick my kids any day over any of it. – Toni Braxton
My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he’s married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he’s a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out. – Toni Braxton
I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life. – Toni Braxton
I love dishes and house things so I kind of lost it a little bit on the house ware. One-thousand thread-count sheets, that’s what I indulged in. – 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
If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it’s the same for your heart. – Toni Braxton
