R Kelly Quotes

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around. ~ R. Kelly

I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes. ~ R. Kelly

I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd. ~ R. Kelly

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face. ~ R. Kelly

Injustice anywhere is an injustice anywhere ~ R. Kelly

Totalitarian are the claims of Christ. No vestige of reservation of 'our' rights can remain. ~ Thomas R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. ~ Thomas R. Kelly

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it. ~ R. Kelly

With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

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

I like to laugh and make people have fun. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too. ~ Kacy Catanzaro

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. ~ R. Kelly

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either. ~ R. Kelly

I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them ... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy. ~ R. Kelly

I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me. ~ R. Kelly

Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about. ~ R. Kelly

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me. ~ 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. ~ R. Kelly

I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want. ~ R. Kelly

I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken. ~ R. Kelly

I always follow what my spirit tells me to do. ~ R. Kelly

I love blues. My grandfather did blues. ~ R. Kelly

You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them. ~ R. Kelly

When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. ~ R. Kelly

My fans have always loved my metaphors. ~ R. Kelly

Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies. ~ R. Kelly

I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway. ~ R. Kelly

Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. ~ R. Kelly

Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music. ~ R. Kelly

I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation. ~ R. Kelly

Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit. ~ R. Kelly

I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon. ~ R. Kelly

I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much. ~ R. Kelly

Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me. ~ R. Kelly

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just remember either a rabbit or a rat leading people out of the village with a flute. That's all I can tell you. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them. ~ R. Kelly

I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it. ~ R. Kelly

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?' ~ R. Kelly

Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson ... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men. ~ Austin Mahone

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. ~ R. Kelly

Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty ~ R. Kelly

I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono. ~ Jay-Z

I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music. ~ R. Kelly

While the angels sing, I'd ask you to marry me, give you the sun for a diamond ring, if I could do those things. ~ R. Kelly

There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!' ~ R. Kelly

I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN. ~ Curtis Jackson

'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. ~ R. Kelly

On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us. ~ R. Kelly

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day. ~ R. Kelly

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation. ~ R. Kelly

I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people. ~ R. Kelly

Ronald Isley is a musical genius. ~ R. Kelly

I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes. ~ R. Kelly

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. ~ Thomas R. Kelly

I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it. ~ R. Kelly

As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

I love that I can play around with all types of music. ~ R. Kelly

I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day. ~ R. Kelly

'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it. ~ R. Kelly

I like to give people more than their money's worth. ~ R. Kelly

You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy. ~ R. Kelly

I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do. ~ R. Kelly

'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world. ~ Nas

I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out. ~ R. Kelly

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director. ~ R. Kelly

There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain. ~ R. Kelly

Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ R. Kelly

Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers. ~ R. Kelly

I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music. ~ R. Kelly

I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift. ~ 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

My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.' ~ R. Kelly

I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me. ~ R. Kelly

My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin. ~ R. Kelly

I just want to touch your soul, let me pour into you. Fill you with my joy, and make you feel brand new. ~ R. Kelly

R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through. ~ R. Kelly

I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child. ~ R. Kelly

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it. ~ R. Kelly