My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes silence can seem so loud.

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