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.
ALICIA KEYSMy music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.
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The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
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Prayer keeps me centered.
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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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Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.
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I don’t worry cause, everything’s gonna be alright.
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No one will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself.
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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.
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I’d rather not have anything than be a liar.
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It’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
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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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I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it’s a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.
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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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Simplicity makes me happy.
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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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All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!
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