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'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.

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

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.

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.

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