Alicia Keys Quotes - Page 7

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.

I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before.

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

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.

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.

A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring.

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.

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.

I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.

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

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.

He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in.

People don't expect me to be as funny as I am.

The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.