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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 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. "

R. Kelly

Artist

Said

Myself

" You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy. "

" 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?' "

R. Kelly

Spell

Happen

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

" Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me. "

R. Kelly

Feel

" 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. "

R. Kelly

Mind

People

" To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted. "

R. Kelly

Need

Appreciation

" My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

R. Kelly

Change

Man

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only. "

" There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. 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!' "

" 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. "

R. Kelly

Know

Book

" I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day. "

R. Kelly

Street

History

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now. "

R. Kelly

People

Today