There’s something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.
ALICIA KEYSEven if your family isn’t quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.
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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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All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!
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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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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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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.
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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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When I’m on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It’s a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.
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I 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.
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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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Falling down ain’t falling down, If you don’t cry when you hit the floor, It’s called the past cause I’m getting past, And I ain’t nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now.
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At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn’t even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.
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Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love it’s: Wow, life is good.
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Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
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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’m in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.
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My 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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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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We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?
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Why give up before we try?
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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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Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.
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Love me like you’ll never see me again.
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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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Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
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