Alicia Keys

What I learned the most from Prince was putting art first, being creatively ambitious, and putting creativity at the forefront of what I do.

When you’re first figuring yourself out, you care so much about what people think of you.

A great song can pull me out of a slump and lighten my heart.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.

On my album Here, that’s the first time that I’ve really understood how I could put all the things that were happening in the world and in my life and in our lives as just human beings into one body that was just so powerful and really had a perspective. That was an opening for me and I think that naturally, there is just so much to talk about. I don’t see me getting quiet anytime soon.

The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.

I’m really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I’m totally sexy.

It’s important so you stay in touch with yourself. If you lose touch with yourself, no one’s going to want to talk to you or listen to anything you’re f**king doing. They’ll just point at you and laugh. At you, not with you.

I’m intelligent. Some people would say I’m very, very, very intelligent.

I don’t wanna be afraid. I wanna wake up feeling beautiful, today.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I always want to think of myself as an underdog.

To be your own person, you need good friends. Friends are the treasure of your life.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Didn’t want y’all to call me fat, so I got liposuction. And they gave me opioids.

I’m a lightweight, easy to fall easy to break.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

If you are able to look yourself in the mirror every day with the decisions that you make, that’s where power starts.

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.