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" When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up. "

R. Kelly

Business

Fly

Storm

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" I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down. "

R. Kelly

Money

Mom

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

" I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me. "

" Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. "

" I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love. "

" When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

R. Kelly

People

Today

" When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was. "

" I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day. "

" 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. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I have to say, it was fun doing this 'Love Letter' album because, hey, man, love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forevermore, it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person. "

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

" When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out. "

" I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets! "

R. Kelly

Twins

Love

" 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. "

" There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. 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!' "

" I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music. "

" I have always been infatuated with country music. "

" 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

" I believe the people that buy my music believes in me. "

" In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also. "

R. Kelly

Love

People