R. Kelly Quotes
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This album was designed to touch your soul.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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I know my past is not what my future holds.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.
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I went from a D all the way to an A plus, I tell you prayer changes things.
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The forecast today is love all around.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes.That's me also.
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People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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I spend like $2 million a year on Chinese food and pizza for ten people in the studio who don't sing or produce.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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I just want to touch your soul, let me pour into you. Fill you with my joy, and make you feel brand new.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.
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When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. And it doesn't matter if it's a murder case, it doesn't matter what case it is, when they're found not guilty, they're not guilty.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realize that now.
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Take away the In God We Trust, tell me what the hell is wrong with us.
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