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

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

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.

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

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

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.