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" I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director. "
R. Kelly
Always
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" I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want. "
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" Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around. "
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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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" 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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" Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head. "
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" Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers. "
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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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" With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything. "
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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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" Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship. "
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" 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. "
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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 have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me. "
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" I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music. "
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" When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other. "
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" My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.' "
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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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" 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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" You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is. "
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" 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. "
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" R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd. "
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" I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon. "
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" When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind. "
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