R. Kelly Quotes
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'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
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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 started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
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Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.
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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 did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.
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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 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 will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly 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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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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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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I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.
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I wanna roll it, roll it, roll it, roll it. Is all I wanna do, for you baby. Girl, it's something kind of sexy. Goin' on about you babe.
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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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I have always been infatuated with country music.
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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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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'
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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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Soon as I see her walk up in the club, I'm a flirt. Winking eyes at me, when I roll up on them dubs, I'm a flirt. Sometimes when I'm with my chick on the low, I'm a flirt. And when she's wit her man looking at me, damn right, I'm a flirt.
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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.