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" 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. "

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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

Music

History

Mother

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

" Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love. "

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

" Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music. "

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

" When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. "

" Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood. "

" 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

Matter

College

" I like to laugh and make people have fun. "

" I like to give people more than their money's worth. "

R. Kelly

Worth

People

" 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

Life

" I always follow what my spirit tells me to do. "

R. Kelly

Always

Tells

" When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind. "

" 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. "

" When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other. "

" My greatest competition is, well, me. "

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

" When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join. "

R. Kelly

You

Point

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

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

R. Kelly

Never

Keep

" My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it. "

" 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

See

Father

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

" 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 am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person. "

" In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels. "

" 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

Love

People

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