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.
ALICIA KEYSI’m in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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It’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
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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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Simplicity makes me happy.
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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 smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.
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We 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.
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I 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.
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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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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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You’ve got to love what’s yours.
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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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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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Your life can become the background for the art you create.
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