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It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.

I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

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.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.