Mathew Knowles

“Every one of us have been disappointed before and have had to go through the grieving process of anger and, you know, disappointment and then acceptance and forgiveness.”

“I have four things to be concerned about: prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma and breast cancer. The rest of my life I have to be very much aware and conscious and do all of the early detection.”

“Well, there's no way that we can get into the mind of Beyonce.”

“What I'm really proud of Beyonce and Solange, they understand the importance of creating the narrative. It's all about the narrative and how you position yourself with your narrative.”

“I've never in my life hit my daughter.”

“Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?”

“It's nobody's business how much I see my daughter or my grandkids, that's something personal that I care not to share.”

“It's a lot of stress being a manager - a lot of moving parts.”

“I've been an educator all my life pretty much. It's important as a manager and also as a record label, to educate your artists on public speaking, how to build that connection, how to communicate effectively, to have a general working knowledge of the music industry.”

“My kids, they take a lot from me and I always come from an intellectual place. Like intellectually, not emotionally, and most people come from an emotional place and it's unfortunate.”

“Only one percent of artists are really profitable and successful. Beyonce is one‑tenth of one percent. When we talk about what she can do, ninety-nine percent of artists can't do that.”

“If I needed money, I wouldn't sell $5 t-shirts. I'd sell a Grammy or an MTV award.”

“I was a stage dad. When I was with Earth, Wind and Fire, I was their stage dad - the O'Jays, I was the stage dad.”

“My second book will be the autobiography of Destiny's Child.”

“It was very clear that I had breast cancer. From a man's perspective, I'm thinking, 'Why me?'”

“You can't equate me with Joe Jackson. I've never hit my kid, I'm educated, I understand the business world.”

“I am a co-writer of 'Survivor,' so there's publishing that I'll receive for some of the records.”

“When I was growing up, my mother used to say, 'Don't ever bring no nappy-head Black girl to my house.' In the deep South in the '50s, '60s and '70s, the shade of your Blackness was considered important. So I, unfortunately, grew up hearing that message.”

“We as label executives, we have to know the limitations of the artists.”

“I wanted people to begin dialogue about racism, about colorism. I wanted people to really become honest about our beliefs, about racism and how it exists in America today.”