Brian McKnight

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

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 don’t care how small the game. I want to win.

I’ve been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

I write about moments, and I don’t make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody’s come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

He knows I rip him off every day. He’s the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren’t influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.

Maybe the best is yet to come, but I’ve already had the best.

I have to tell you, and I don’t mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.

I like to delude myself that I’m in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can’t do it.

I don’t know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

I just LOVE lip gloss! It doesn’t matter if it’s $2 or $30.

Any time that people think enough of you to put up something that’s everlasting is only going to make you feel good.

[on the NSA surveillance program] Mr. President, when Michele Bachmann is in your side you may want to look at the side you are on. She is the canary in the crazy mine. I myself wear a bracelet that says: ‘What wouldn’t Michele Bachmann do?’

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

I love Led Zeppelin, they were four prodigiously talented musicians. The magical combination of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant underpinned by the best rhythm section, John Paul Jones on bass and the best rock n’roll drummer in the world, John Bonham.

I have my moments – usually twice every album – when I basically lose it.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it’s a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it’s terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It’s a dying art, in a way.

I think I’d make a pretty good girlfriend.

The women’s movement hasn’t changed my sex life. It wouldn’t dare.

If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it’s good to be married to someone who’s not impressed with that at all.