Brian McKnight

People don’t like when you point out to them and remind them that they’re not very smart.

I think I’ve tried to stay true to my music since the beginning. It’s kind of hard because of the access and technology but I just do what I do.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it’s disposable.

I’m not worried about legacy. I don’t even know what that actually means. I don’t think anyone knows. I hope at some point in my career when my name is mentioned, someone will say “Oh yeah he has a good song!” I’d be happy with that.

There’s only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

No, I’ve never thought that I was gay. And that’s not something you think. It’s something you know.

If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

We (pop stars) are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use a bit of my art to put them over. I think music is one of the most powerful media forces in the world today.

I’m really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I’m enjoying what I’m doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it’s great, you know.

Kourtney has a new therapist and a new bf and I don’t really know which one is this problem

Because I talk so much shit they give me overcredit just to shut me up!

Chris Rock once said something that was really interesting. He said, “Women would run the world if they didn’t hate each other.” That’s the only thing preventing us from running this entire planet, that we hate each other!

This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. “You’re up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it’ll be between you and Barbara.” Don’t be fooled. You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

I was labeled a ‘theatre type’ in high school, which made it hard to fit in and feel part of things.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don’t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

I’m not going to have a baby until I’m around 30-something.

Freddie will have been dead for 20 years in November. I was staggered because it doesn’t seem possible that all that time has passed and I still miss him. He was my best friend, my best man. We shared so much and I owe so much to him.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don’t know what it is.

I look like an angel, but I can play the bitch.