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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I know my past is not what my future holds.