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

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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. "

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

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

" 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?' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me. "

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

" 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. "

" 'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together. "

" 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. "

" They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me. "