Alicia Keys Quotes

I have big everything on the bottom but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours.

My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world.

There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn't mean much without family.

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.

I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.

When you're talented, you're talented.

I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, "Are you doing shows?" I've just been off the road for a month-and-a-half, and he was like, "You lucky girl."

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.

Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.

I thought I had to be perfect. I would often make choices I thought would make everyone else happy. I lived at a pace that was "good for my career," whether it was good for me or not. I have learned how important it is to check in with myself and listen, really listen.

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

Love me like you'll never see me again.

When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.

I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.

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.

I don't know if we tell women great news about themselves enough. You'd be surprised how often a young woman doesn't hear positive things about herself - not in her home, not at school. It's hard to create a beautiful image for yourself when you've never seen it or heard it.

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

I've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things.

My mom is definitely my rock.

The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way.

How you look is your statement, because it's a claiming of yourself.

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.

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.

I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.

If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.

I've met some serious aliens in my life, for sure. I'm sure you've seen a UFO. Haven't all of us seen something flying in the sky, and it's at some random time of night that doesn't make sense, and it's not the shape of a plane? I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.

Only joy comes from song.

I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.

Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.

Even 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.

When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

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.

I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.

When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.

I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.

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.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

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.

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. It reminds me to live in the moment.

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.