Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Tionne Watkins

Writing

Life

Love

" Music is my heart. "

Tionne Watkins

Heart

Music

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

" TLC never broke up. We are sisters for life. "

Tionne Watkins

TLC

Broke

" 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. "

" I grew up around guys and got along with them better. "

" Bell Biv Devoe, back in the day, we used to look up to them. They had incredible style back then, so we wanted to be like them. "

Tionne Watkins

Look

Day

" TLC always looked up to male bands. We saw guy groups could just go out and get the fans screaming by just standing there - fully clothed and with nothing but their music... We saw them as the competition more than the girl groups, with whom we wanted to stay unified. "

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

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

Tionne Watkins

Interested

Leading

" No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement - that's what makes us all different. "

" I want to live. I didn't have time to die. "

" 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. "

" When you Google someone's name, it matters to me what shows up. Not the lies, but like, did you change lives? Did you do something while you were here? "

Tionne Watkins

Google

Name

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

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

" 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. "

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

" In life, when you lose anyone, there's always an adjustment period - emotionally, mentally and physically. "

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

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

Tionne Watkins

TLC

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I remember getting flowers and champagne for being one of the first black artists on MTV. That was a big deal. "

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

" 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. "

" If you want to live, you have to face your fears. "

" Some people criticize me for always wearing different variations of bobs, but bobs never go out of style. "

Tionne Watkins

Style

Always

" There's vultures out here. You need to listen and learn. "

" 'Creep,' unfortunately, was one of my true stories. "