R. Kelly
Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.
I love that I can play around with all types of music.
I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.
With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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.
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.
To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.
'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.
My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.'
My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.
I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.
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.
There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.
I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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.
I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.Collection: Struggle
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.Collection: Sex
Within all of us there is a storm. Some believe it will never end: but he who has faith in the heavens above will weather any storm.Collection: Religious
Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice. . . . Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is radiant.Collection: Simple
You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.Collection: Motivational
I just want to touch your soul, let me pour into you. Fill you with my joy, and make you feel brand new.Collection: Inspirational
I know my past is not what my future holds.Collection: Future
The power of pussy, that's why niggaz get their hair cut.Collection: Cutting
Sometimes silence can seem so loud.Collection: Silence
You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.Collection: Light
The forecast today is love all around.Collection: Future
I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.Collection: Dream
I went from a D all the way to an A plus, I tell you prayer changes things.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Romantic
If we don't love ourselves, tell me, how can we love somebody else?Collection: Unanswered Questions
When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. And it doesn't matter if it's a murder case, it doesn't matter what case it is, when they're found not guilty, they're not guilty.Collection: Matter
There are miracles in life I must achieve. But first I know it starts inside of me.Collection: Inspirational
Soon as I see her walk up in the club, I'm a flirt. Winking eyes at me, when I roll up on them dubs, I'm a flirt. Sometimes when I'm with my chick on the low, I'm a flirt. And when she's wit her man looking at me, damn right, I'm a flirt.Collection: Flirty
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realize that now.Collection: Kings