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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

Alicia Keys

I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We’re capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.
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Believe Capability Human Limitation Myself Realization Scare
I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.
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Drive Environment Myself Thinking Tough
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
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Death Love Myself Play
Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
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Fly Need Order Start Time Yourself
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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Care Drive Fire Identify Personal Yourself
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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Drugs Growth Myself Tough Young
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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Guidance Moments Myself Performance Prayer Sleep
I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I’m discovering who I am.
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Discover Focus Myself Stay
I believe if you can find something to give back to, your soul will feel fulfilled in a very powerful way.
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Believe Feeling Fulfill Powerful Soul Way Yourself
I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
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Deserve Love Ourselves People Thinking
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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Alive Audience Feeling Fuel Myself New Stage
Business 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.
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Business Change Important Stand Yourself
I 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.
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Hard Myself Proper Skin Worst
I don’t dream – only if I’m uncomfortable or I’m going through something.
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Comfortable Dreams Myself Thinking
Simplicity makes me happy.
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Happiness Myself Simplicity
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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Evidence Follow People Thinking Yourself

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

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