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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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" 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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" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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 have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me. "

" 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'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. "

" I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love. "

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

" 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. "

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