R. Kelly Quotes

If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.

I'm not a bad guy. People who know me know who I am.

Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk about. It'll be hard for people to differentiate those different sides but I think it's possible. Once the music is out there, people will start to realize how serious I am about it rather than, 'Oh god, another actress making an album.'

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

Self-vindication never does a man any good, unless he has been assailed.

If an artist is going to take money from the taxpayers I guess he's got to be prepared to have the taxpayers dissatisfied with the product.

I am no longer willing to take parts in films and/or television shows which detract from the 50 years I have spent building my reputation.

I want to experiment. That is why I only sign the movies I believe in.

Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more.

The reach of big-budget films is bigger, but I have always loved doing films that I believe in.

I have refused money sometimes for a film. I have refused films when I felt that it was not for me. When it was just a job or just about making money, I said no. I wanted to make every film count, and when you are true to yourself, this gives you a certain integrity and a certain reputation.