R. Kelly Quotes

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

I remember when I did 'Live SheckWes, Die SheckWes,' and when I did 'Mo Bamba,' I one-taked those because it came from my heart.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.

I'm just thinking about the vision for how I want my music to go and what I want it to say. I'm always creating in a way, even if it's just thinking about it.

'It's Everyday Bro' started with me talking about the things I do on a day-to-day basis. From there, the creativity was unleashed, and the song was the result.

I just like a beat that grabs me. And then I'll come up with a concept after. I like to take my time with music.

I feel like every record I've ever made, on some level, is urgent.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.