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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My greatest competition is, well, me. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters. "

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

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

" I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets! "

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

" 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. "