201 Quotes by R. Kelly

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

My mother wasn’t rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I’ve been shot. And now I’m known around the world, and I’ve touched a lot of people with my music. That’s one of the great testimonies that’s gonna go down in history.

While the angels sing, I’d ask you to marry me, give you the sun for a diamond ring, if I could do those things.

I’ve really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a ‘Bump Grind,’ then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I’m glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I’m not just stuck in one situation.

I spend like $2 million a year on Chinese food and pizza for ten people in the studio who don’t sing or produce.

Soon as I see her walk up in the club, I’m a flirt. Winking eyes at me, when I roll up on them dubs, I’m a flirt. Sometimes when I’m with my chick on the low, I’m a flirt. And when she’s wit her man looking at me, damn right, I’m a flirt.

I’m in love with music, and I’m pregnant by it. It’s like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

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.