R. Kelly

“I have always been infatuated with country music.”

“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.”

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

“'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“'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 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.”

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

“I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.”

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

“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.”

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

“When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.”

“'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.”

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

“In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.”

“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.”

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