Brian McKnight

Stevie didn’t use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don’t use my work to further the tools.

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

I think I’d have to say my favorite IWC. They have been around for so long and the craftsmanship is top notch. A watch maker that has been in business over 100 years has to know what they are doing.

The fans dictate to you when you’re done!

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

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.

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

Cats know, comin’ out of four, they better be standin’ on it, else they’ll be standin’ in it.

When in trouble, take a bath and wash your hair.

You just have to play every scene honestly and forget about a reaction and what the audience is going to think. I think the more seriously you take something, the more funny it might be.

I don’t have a sound bite for everything.

Maybe it’s because I’m English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

My little cousin tells me I look like Magneto so I guess that’s who I should probably play.

I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening.

I think mystery is kind of great. I don’t know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner – not really – and I like that. I love watching their movies because they’re my personal movie stars. I don’t know what they eat and who their trainer is.

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open. The crowd cheers.

When you’re acting, you’re a character and you can hide behind that. Music is who you are right then and there – you can’t hide.

Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet?

When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real. You don’t just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at SNL is writing to go after someone.

I love “The Office”. I think it’s the funniest thing – Ricky Gervais is possibly the funniest person I’ve seen in my entire life.

I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.