Alicia Keys Quotes - Page 6

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

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.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

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.

At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

I'm a very caring person.

You've got to love what's yours.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.

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'm inspired by many of my friends, colleagues, and the extraordinary people I've been fortunate enough to meet along the way.

I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.

You just can't take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that's been instilled in me. And I don't look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change.

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

Love will come find you Just to remind you Of who you are [...] See that's the thing about love [...] Then life It will embrace you Totally amaze you So you don't give up

Sometimes I feel like I don't belong anywhere, & it's gonna take so long for me to get to somewhere, Sometimes I feel so heavy hearted, but I can't explain cuz I'm so guarded. But that's a lonely road to travel, and a heavy load to bear. And it's a long, long way to heaven but I gotta get there Can you send an angel? Can you send me an angel...to guide me.

Soul music is timeless.

In fact, I think that's my favorite word and the most important word when it comes to relationships: equality.

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

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

There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything.

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

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

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.

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.