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" 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!' "

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" 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

" 'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically. "

" I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child. "

" I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen. "

" 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. "

" 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've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director. "

" I like to give people more than their money's worth. "

R. Kelly

Worth

People

" I love blues. My grandfather did blues. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

" Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up. "

R. Kelly

Never

Keep

" 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. "

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

R. Kelly

Feel

" 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. "

R. Kelly

You

Life

" 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. "

R. Kelly

Matter

College

" 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. "

R. Kelly

Myself

Compliment

" They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me. "

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

" 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. "

" I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon. "

" I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press. "

" 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. "

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

" When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join. "

R. Kelly

You

Point

" 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 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. "