It’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
ALICIA KEYSIt’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
ALICIA KEYSI 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.
ALICIA KEYSI pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.
ALICIA KEYSIt’s the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.
ALICIA KEYSI know people who’ve gone to jail. It don’t mean you stop loving them! They deservin’ love just as much in there, and maybe they needin’ it more.
ALICIA KEYSFrom the beginning, I’ve had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say – and I’ve learnt that they’re meaningless, and they’re mostly inaccurate. So I don’t worry about it, because there’s nothin’ for me to deal with.
ALICIA KEYSBe driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.
ALICIA KEYSThe 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.
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 KEYSSimplicity makes me happy.
ALICIA KEYSI’d rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I’m not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
ALICIA KEYSYou can’t really compare people. That’s one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
ALICIA KEYSCreate the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
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.
ALICIA KEYSI think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.
ALICIA KEYSA 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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