I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation. — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music. — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer. — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it. — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time. — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
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… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories.… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
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… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump Grind,' then turning around… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share
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… — R. Kelly Copy Share
Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything… — R. Kelly Copy Share
You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is — R. Kelly Copy Share
They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me. — R. Kelly Copy Share
I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as… — R. Kelly Copy Share
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… — R. Kelly Copy Share
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. — R. Kelly Copy Share
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… — R. Kelly Copy Share
I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation. — R. Kelly Copy Share
I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music. — R. Kelly Copy Share
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… — R. Kelly Copy Share
