More Than Words

Album: More Than Words (2013)
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  • This song features the Californian singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat. McKnight told Billboard magazine how the collaboration came about: "We were on a plane together, and I didn't realize who she was 'cause I don't know anybody's face," he recalled. "We started talking, then she came by my house and we wrote this really great tune."
  • McKnight told Billboard that he didn't think of radio when creating the songs for the More Than Words album, but instead went with what felt right to him. "I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be," he said. "I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio. I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to."

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