Top 44 Tionne Watkins Quotes

To have a body of work is a blessing – when you have songs that have been around generation after generation that they call timeless music, you can work that for a long time.

I had to learn a lot about myself during the situation with my brain tumor.

I was told I wouldn’t live past 30 or have children.

TLC never broke up. We are sisters for life.

I’m never going to put another girl in my group. Never!

I want to raise my own baby. I don’t want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

I don’t care how much money you have in the world. It’s not about that. It’s all about time.

I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.

I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell.

I feel naked without earrings. I’ll pass out twice. It feels like I’m missing a body part.

One thing, parents: you need to realize is you’ve got to stop letting artists raise your kids. You’re the parent. Why don’t you monitor what your child wears? Ariana Grande didn’t sign on to be a role model.

At the end of the day we feel the same; we all hurt.

I get a lot of ‘Oh, you’ve been gone.’ I wasn’t gone. Just because you didn’t see me doesn’t mean I wasn’t working and collecting checks. I just wasn’t singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.

I’ve worked in the studio with a lot of young girls, and they’ll go, ‘Oh, the label is telling me to take off my clothes, and I don’t feel comfortable.’ Well if you don’t feel comfortable, don’t do it.

No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement – that’s what makes us all different.

When my kid was five and playing with my camcorder. I don’t like it. It makes it look fake looking, too much HD. I don’t need to see your pores on TV, like why do I see your pores right here? That’s not cool.

Don’t sit there and wallow in woe-is-me stuff that happened in your past. Move forward. Face whatever you’re afraid of. Or deal with it.

In life, when you lose anyone, there’s always an adjustment period – emotionally, mentally and physically.

‘Creep,’ unfortunately, was one of my true stories.

Everything happens the way it’s supposed to because it’s just like cavemen – you evolve and grow and learn.

You’re always in a blessed position if you have a great success story, especially to be in a position to be able to tell it so people can even understand.

What I’m proud of, we learned from our lessons.

I’m in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.

If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I’m all for it.

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

I have learned to smile when I wasn’t happy, to sing when I didn’t feel like it, and to do things just to please my fans.

I’ve been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.

Miracles happen every day – I’m one!

I’m not homophobic; I’m just not gay.

I get nervous as hell when it’s time for the songs to come out.

I don’t care about Donald Trump. I mean, God is my president. So I just feel sorry for people it affects, but I don’t care about him.

‘Waterfalls’ spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.

Whatever your hustle is, go somewhere with it.

I want to live. I didn’t have time to die.

The interesting thing about the TLC network is that they were interested in following me, not leading me.

I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I’m not gonna lie.

I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it’s to the world. I don’t have a problem doing that.

Great music, timeless music is hard to come by, but there are some that are like that.

I’m open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.

TLC is T-Boz, Lisa, and Chilli. That’s it.

At the end of the day, I do think there’s a higher power, and the way I feel about things and choose to do things has an effect on that outcome.

I never thought black people would say I wasn’t black enough. It didn’t turn me into a bully – it just put me on the defensive. I had to watch my back. It made me stronger because I learned how to deal with ignorance.

Just because I’m not dancing on a video every five seconds doesn’t mean I’m not working.