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" 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. "

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" 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. "

R. Kelly

Back

Write

Fun

" 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

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

R. Kelly

Feel

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

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

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

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

" I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out. "

" 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. "

" 'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it. "

" 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

" Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit. "

" Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music. "

" 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. "

R. Kelly

You

Great

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

" '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'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

" 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!' "

" 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 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 had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation. "

" 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 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

" I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes. "

" My fans have always loved my metaphors. "

" Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship. "

" I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes. "

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

" My greatest competition is, well, me. "

" I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do it. "