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

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" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit. "

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

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

" My greatest competition is, well, me. "

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

" You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is. "

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

" When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My fans have always loved my metaphors. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person. "

" 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. "

" 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. "