My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

- R. Kelly

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

- R. Kelly

Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.

- R. Kelly

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.

- R. Kelly

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

- R. Kelly

There's a time and place for everything. 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.

- R. Kelly

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

- R. Kelly

When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.

- R. Kelly

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

- R. Kelly

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

- R. Kelly