A biography for R. Kellyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.”
“I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.”
“Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.”
“R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.”
“You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.”
“I love blues. My grandfather did blues.”
“When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.”
“I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.”
“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.”
“I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.”
“I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.”
“When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.”