Alicia Keys Quotes

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

It's important for everyone - working moms especially - to find moments to ground themselves and connect with their own breath.

I’ve found that the best life has to offer is right in front of me, with my husband and child

I like to do outdoorsy things: hikes, trails, running, swimming. I love the sun. I'm all about the warmth.

With each new day, I'm learning how to take control in order to have balance in my life. I plan time for myself and my loved ones and take it.

I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before.

The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.

And Im happy that Im not super skinny.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog.

No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting.

Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.

I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.

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 always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.

I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.

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.

I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

I'm very blessed to have a phenomenal husband, son, and beautiful family and friends around me.

I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].

It's a beautiful blessing that I get to help raise a man. And I want to show him as much as possible.

My son makes me super giddy, especially when he laughs. His laugh makes me laugh like a maniac!

Rarely, I think, do you find a relationship where you can experience things equally.

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

I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.

I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust; they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

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.

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.

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."

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.

For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

How terrible would it have been if I had come out with some watered-down version of who I am? People fell in love with the real me, and I still feel blessed that that was how the journey began.

I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn.

I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.