Brian McKnight Quotes

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

A lot of my die-hard fans think I have a lot of hits, but I don't.

Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.

I've had a few ditty hits.

I'm lucky that I have people listening to my music, waiting to see me in North America.

I obviously appreciate all the fans I gained from my band, but there weren't enough of them to make me a very successful artist. To me, being successful is selling a lot of records and selling out big venues on tour, and it's not up to anyone else to decide what success is for me.

I don't know why we sold a lot of records or why so many people came to see us. Like 'Sabotage' - would you put that song on, like, 'I'm gonna listen to that right now?' It's a weird choice.

I thought my second record was good, but it didn't have that smash hit we did on the first one that somehow found its way onto tons of formats of radio stations.

We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm.

Instead, of worrying if something will be a hit, bands need to go out and make good music, get a following, play live. That's how you make a career these days.

If I was just a country singer, I wouldn't be near as cool and I wouldn't have nowhere near as cool of a fan base.

Just because you sell millions of records it doesn't guarantee bums on seats.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.