Mathew Knowles

Business is business and family is family.

I guess I kind of have been known as the guy that shakes up girl groups.

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.

I love a spirited debate.

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

See, I would never have Beyonce up here public speaking. She's not good at it. Solange was just at Yale. She's incredible at it.

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

I only do things that I'm passionate about.

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

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.

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.

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

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

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.

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

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.

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.

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

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

I would think Beyonce will be the greatest female artist of all time.