Alicia Keys Quotes - Page 10

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.

I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.

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

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.

And Im happy that Im not super skinny.

When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.

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

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.

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 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.

What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it.

Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy.

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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].

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

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

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

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.

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