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" My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that. "

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" 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. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

" I always follow what my spirit tells me to do. "

" Ronald Isley is a musical genius. "

" 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. "

" You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them. "

" 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. "

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

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

" People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through. "

" I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just remember either a rabbit or a rat leading people out of the village with a flute. That's all I can tell you. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

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

" I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time. "

" I have always been infatuated with country music. "

" I've done a lot of things that I regret. "

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

" I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My greatest competition is, well, me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "