Singer Toni Braxton announced that she wants to stop making new music in order to pursue acting.

The 45-year-old entertainer told The Grio on Feb. 8 that she will not make any new albums but may still do some performances.

"For what I do, I have to love it. I have to feel that excitement and it's gone," Braxton said. "I'm just not going to do any albums anymore; maybe touring occasionally here and there because I love performing, but not as much as I did in the past. But no new projects."

Now she wants to focus on acting as her main goal with some experience in the Broadway musicals Aida and Beauty and the Beast.

She also told The Grio that she hopes to play a lesbian in any upcoming acting projects.

"I would like to play a lesbian," she said. "I don't know why. And do a whole make-out scene and the whole thing; just something completely different than people would expect from me. Not a lipstick lesbian, either."

Braxton has had an accomplished musical career with more than 60 million records sold worldwide. She also has won six Grammy Awards, competed on TV's Dancing with the Stars, and starred in the reality show Braxton Family Values.

Braxton's last studio album, Pulse, was released in 2010. She has since been focusing her time and energy on her family reality show and her new TV movie, Twist of Faith.

The recent years were filled with trouble for Braxton both financial and health wise.

She filed for bankruptcy in 2007 and her health has been rough as she continues to battle the autoimmune disease lupus. She was hospitalized for a health scare related to the disease last December, according to DigitalSpy.

Watch a music video of Tony Braxton's all-time favorite Unbreak My Heart.