R. Kelly Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

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.

You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.

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

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.

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 the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

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.

I just want to touch your soul, let me pour into you. Fill you with my joy, and make you feel brand new.

The forecast today is love all around.

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

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

I know my past is not what my future holds.

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 the haters.

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

Sometimes silence can seem so loud.

The power of pussy, that's why niggaz get their hair cut.

You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.

I went from a D all the way to an A plus, I tell you prayer changes things.

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

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.

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

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.

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

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 around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.

My greatest competition is, well, me.

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 challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

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

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

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

I like to give people more than their money's worth.

I wanna roll it, roll it, roll it, roll it. Is all I wanna do, for you baby. Girl, it's something kind of sexy. Goin' on about you babe.

It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.

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.

Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

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.

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

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 spend like $2 million a year on Chinese food and pizza for ten people in the studio who don't sing or produce.

This album was designed to touch your soul.

All of a sudden you're like the Bin Laden of America. Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through.

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.

When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

But I have to say, it was fun doing this Love Letter album because, hey, man, 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.

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