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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.

Alicia Keys

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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Big Compare Lesson People Stop Yourself
It’s karma, baby. And it goes around.
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Around Karma Spiritual
Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.
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Live Love Struggle Yourself
Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.
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Love Myself Relationship Strong
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
Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can’t fail.
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Failure Option Thinking Vocabulary Word Yourself
I don’t worry cause, everything’s gonna be alright.
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Myself Right Worry
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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Cry Down Effort Fall Hard Time Myself See Struggle
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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Conversation Influence Music Myself People Place 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
It’s the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.
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Feeling Myself Unknown Vulnerable
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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Deep Expression Feeling Myself Remember
I don’t have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don’t have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.
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Family Friendship Greatness Huge Myself
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
How you look is your statement, because it’s a claiming of yourself.
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Appearance Claim Statement Yourself
You’re stronger, and you’re better, and you’re ready for whatever.
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Better Ready Strong Yourself

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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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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