I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

- 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

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

- 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 know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

- Toni Braxton

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

- 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

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

- Toni Braxton

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

- 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 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

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

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

- Toni Braxton

I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.

- Toni Braxton

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

- Toni Braxton

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

- Toni Braxton

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

- Toni Braxton

I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

- Toni Braxton

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

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

- Toni Braxton