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.

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.

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

Sometimes silence can seem so loud.

I know my past is not what my future holds.

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

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.