Brian McKnight

I think the idea of a love song has changed. Most of the love songs we all loved as kids would be classified as funeral dirges now, you know, really super slow. I think nowadays the ballad has changed. It can have some up-tempo, some drums, some other things. ‘Forever’ would still be considered a ballad, I guess, but the tempo is probably more of a mid-tempo. The content is love song. I don’t know how to write anything else.

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

I’m probably the furthest from being romantic that you’ve ever seen; I’m not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.

I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.

I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.

Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I’d just written the song that got me my record deal. If I hadn’t gotten kicked out of school I wouldn’t be where I am now. Three months after that, I got my record deal and the rest is history.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.

Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living…

America is one of the few places in the world where a poorperson can still be obese.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Life on the road is murder. It’s as though life begins and ends with your horn in your mouth.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

We’re cool for the summer.

If there’s only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

Every success is the mother of countless others.