I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it’s hard to hear sometimes, because it’s a noisy world and there’s a lot of people talking to you.
ALICIA KEYSIt’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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I’m a very caring person.
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Your life can become the background for the art you create.
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We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring.
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Quiet moments recharge me.
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I’ve stepped more into my womanhood, I’m a mother now, I’m having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
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Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
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It’s karma, baby. And it goes around.
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I’d rather not have anything than be a liar.
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Love me like you’ll never see me again.
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I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
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Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it’s really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
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A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It’s a very moody key, and also ‘A’ is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
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Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can’t fail.
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Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.
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Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.
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You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it’s not going to drive you.
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Why give up before we try?
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Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned…another lesson learned.
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Prayer keeps me centered.
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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
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The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.
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I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you’d better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that’s going to shape them. They are going to become you.
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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That’s why it’s so important to know who you are and stand up for something.
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