“I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I d...” — Brian McKnight Quote

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

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.

You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.

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.

I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

Maybe people who aren't too interested in period pieces will be now because 'Bridgerton' is so contemporary, so modern.