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 KEYSI think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.
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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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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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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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If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.
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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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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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I’ve been able to find a lot of what I’ve not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It’s empowering to find those things.
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From 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.
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I 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.
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I’m committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I’ve also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.
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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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I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.
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I’ve always expressed myself best through writing. I’ve gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.
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I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
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Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.
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