Brian McKnight

I’ll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I’m always writing music.

People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire record that would merit you paying, you know, $7, $8, $10 when CDs in the ’90s were $18, $19 and people bought millions and millions and millions of them.

I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn’t know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that’s what I got back to.

There’s no substitute to being successful on an actual chart.

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

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.

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

I stopped believing in love at first sight. I think you go through that wonderful love stage, but when it gets hard, you need a little bit more.

A happy love needs to be reciprocated.

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

He’s out his head, I’m out my mind. We got that love, the crazy kind.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

My wish for us all is to love and adore ourselves just as much as we do everyone else!

When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self. When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

I hope you find a love. Your own designs of love.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thunder only happens when it’s raining; players only love you when they’re playing.