Quotes from Alicia Keys


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I love my legs.


My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'


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 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.


To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she's not forgotten in this crazy world - that's why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up.


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


I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.


I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.


I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.


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.


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 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 would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.


I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.


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


I'm very happy with my body.


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


My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.


Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.