Top 161 Quotes & Sayings by R. Kelly - Page 2

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

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.

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

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

When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

I have to say, it was fun doing this 'Love Letter' album because, hey, man, love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forevermore, it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.

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

I have always been infatuated with country music.

All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.

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.

As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

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

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.

When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

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.

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

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

I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

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

I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.

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

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.

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

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.

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

To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.

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!'

Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.

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.

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.

Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.

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.

I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.

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.

No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

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

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

'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.

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.

Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.

There's a time and place for everything. 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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

Ronald Isley is a musical genius.