Mathew Knowles

“I would describe my relationship with my daughters as 'loving.'”

“I only do things that I'm passionate about.”

“One of the great aspects of a Destiny's Child movie... is the empowerment of the songs and the empowerment that Destiny's Child has given to women.”

“Only a fool manages himself.”

“I love a spirited debate.”

“As a father I am extremely proud of Beyonce. I mean, Beyonce just keeps pushing the envelope, pushing the envelope and setting an example of the whole industry.”

“I grew up in a small town and never went to a Black school.”

“The thing with R Kelly was, he liked to record late at night, around midnight. And what was different with his studio was that one room had a recording suite, and next door was a club, with 40 or 50 people dancing.”

“My mother's last name, maiden name is Hogue. She is Cherokee and African. My grandfather, Dave Hogue, owned 300 acres of land in Marion, Alabama. He was an entrepreneur and someone I looked up to as a kid a lot.”

“I stopped drinking, I just wanted to have a clean bill of health... Exercise, meditate.”

“I grew up in Gladstone, Alabama, on a dirt road, with an outside bathroom.”

“Yes colorism does exist if you look at historically what's happened as far as crossing over to pop radio.”

“At University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I was one of the first Blacks there. I didn't go to a Black school until my junior year of college, when I went to Fisk University.”

“I don't even read social media.”