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

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" 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. "

" I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway. "

" 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 always follow what my spirit tells me to do. "

" You know, I love plays. 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. "

" No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer. "

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

" I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway. "

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

" All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house. "

" 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. "

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

" When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind. "

" If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it. "

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

" I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music. "

" 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. "

" To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted. "

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

" As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only. "

" On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us. "

" 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. "

" Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head. "

" 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 fans have always loved my metaphors. "

" When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. "