The controversial R&B savant strives to be a “no category guy.”

In an interview with Vibe, R. Kelly reveals that country music might be in his future. “I’ve really been writing a lot of country songs,” he says. “I used to get criticized for doing a ‘Bump & Grind’ then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I’m glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.”

“My talent is more than just sexual songs. There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy,” he explains. “My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, ‘Hey, that guy can do anything. He’s the Evel Knievel of music. He’s jumping over 15 buses!'”

Kelly’s next album, Black Panties, is supposedly due this year. As for what it will sound like, he has high expectations: “If you liked 12 Play, and if you liked TP-2 and Chocolate Factory, it’s pretty much all three albums combined.” He’s also allegedly working on a novelization of Trapped in the Closet.