R. Kelly Quotes
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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 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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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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I love that I can play around with all types of music.
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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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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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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 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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I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.
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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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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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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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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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Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
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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'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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I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.
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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.