Quotes from R. Kelly

She's my comforter and friend, I tell you she's that peace within. She's the lover in my home, she's the strength when I'm not strong. Everyday my valentine, I'm so glad heave made her mine.

The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.

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.

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.

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.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

There are miracles in life I must achieve. But first I know it starts inside of me.

Ronald Isley is a musical genius.

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.

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

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 don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.

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.

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

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.

Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.

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

I like to laugh and make people have fun.

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

The forecast today is love all around.

If we don't love ourselves, tell me, how can we love somebody else?

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

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

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.