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" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see. "

" Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood. "

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

R. Kelly

Never

Keep

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I love blues. My grandfather did blues. "

" 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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

R. Kelly

Darkness

Face

" 'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together. "

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

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

" I like to laugh and make people have fun. "

" 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. "

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Long

Good

" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "