R. Kelly Quotes

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.

I guess I should say I like to do things that people say you can't do.

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

I've always been an outsider. I've always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn't come around very often.

I've always been interested in kind of doing the thing that you weren't necessarily recommended to do.

More Than' challenges every norm, refuses to accept the rules as they are, one-size-fits-all, and most importantly, 'More Than' implores you to take massive risk.

For me, I love doing what is said can't be done.

Companies that tend to survive are the rebels.

I knew that if I were the best in the world, my reality could change. I was always the person who didn't conform to the idea of 'halfway.'

I'm glad I've established this as my zone: 'the taboo breaker.'

I trust my gut instinct, and go against the grain and it works.

I think, in a lot of ways, Kanye's superpower is his weakness - if you tell him he can't do something, he's going to go hard at it.

I've certainly never liked the idea of being put in a box. I loved being part of shows like 'American Idiot' and 'In the Heights,' and I take pride in being able to sing different styles, not just 'Old Man River.'

Adapt to yourself, bro. What I wanna say is don't let nobody tell you that you should stay in your lane, bro.

I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

If people are telling you that they don't believe what you're doing, that means you're doing something out of their comfort zone. And generally, people don't want to be taken out of their comfort zone because it's outside of the status quo.

You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.

Business people want things to be safe but that's rubbish to me. In music nothing should be safe.