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" 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. "
R. Kelly
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.' "
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" When I get into the studio, I write from my heart. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out. "
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" 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. "
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" You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy. "
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" I have always been infatuated with country music. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies. "
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" I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me. "
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" I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes. "
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" I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing. "
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" Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. "
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" 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. "
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" I love that I can play around with all types of music. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love. "
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" I've done a lot of things that I regret. "
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" I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do. "
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" When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me. "
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" I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see. "
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" 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. "
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