201 Quotes by R. Kelly

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

Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I’m working the music.

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 wouldn’t be able to do the songs as long as I’ve been doing if I didn’t feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation.

When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.