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To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
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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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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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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
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When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
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I have always been infatuated with country music.
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I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.
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I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.
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If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.
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I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do it.
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My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
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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.
R. Kelly -
You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans.
R. Kelly -
I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.
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