I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.
ALICIA KEYSWe have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there’s nothing we can do.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We’re capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.
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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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We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?
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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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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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A 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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Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.
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I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
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I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
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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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We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring.
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Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.
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Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.
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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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Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
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You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn’t mean much without family.
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I 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.
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Quiet moments recharge me.
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Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
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You 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.
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Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.
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I’m in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
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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’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.
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Wait, I’m deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.
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Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
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