But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
ALICIA KEYSBut when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
ALICIA KEYSNo one will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself.
ALICIA KEYSYou could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn’t mean much without family.
ALICIA KEYSI 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.
ALICIA KEYSI’ve stepped more into my womanhood, I’m a mother now, I’m having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
ALICIA KEYSI feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.
ALICIA KEYSI am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I’m able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I’m able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.
ALICIA KEYSBusiness 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.
ALICIA KEYSLove is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.
ALICIA KEYSFailure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can’t fail.
ALICIA KEYSWe’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring.
ALICIA KEYSI think we deserve people who really, really love us.
ALICIA KEYSI feel more like I’m a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.
ALICIA KEYSMoments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.
ALICIA KEYSI find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
ALICIA KEYSI 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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