Quotes from R. Kelly

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.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.

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

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

I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.

I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

My greatest competition is, well, me.

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

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 went from a D all the way to an A plus, I tell you prayer changes things.

I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

I have always been infatuated with country music.

While the angels sing, I'd ask you to marry me, give you the sun for a diamond ring, if I could do those things.

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

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.

I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. 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.

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

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

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.

You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.

You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans.

I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it.