Alicia Keys

I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

As I grow and I get older I’m realising more and more that there’s such a beautiful, sensual power that we have as women.

I’m meant to be an artist who can stand on my own. That’s my place; that’s what I’m supposed to do.

Everything I do stems from something personal, not just because it will look good on paper or be a tax write-off.

My wish for us all is to love and adore ourselves just as much as we do everyone else!

I’m open and ready to go to the next place, the next level, the next height.

You can point any kind of laser at my face, but I don’t think Botox is for me. I think it is bad. People who have too much, they look like their faces are full of candles – a shiny, shiny face.

I think I’m brave about some things and a huge coward in other ways. My fake bravery is talking in front of a bunch of people who might hate it.

I think everyone’s intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

I go by my instincts. It’s whatever I feel in the scene in the moment.

I don’t really see the point in washing your hair. If you don’t care if your hair’s clean or not then why would you wash it?

When you’re on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

It’s an idiotic thing that you have to be a college graduate to be an agent.

These sprint boys weren’t happy with how the sport was being promoted and where it was going, so they asked me if I’d still be interested in helping them, and I am,

I love being sexy; I’m never gonna stop being an exhibitionist

This Velvet Mafia thing is just another homophobic, nasty kind of thing that jealous queens make up.

Because if you do what you think is right for the benefit of everybody and everything and you make decisions, to go back and regret them afterwards-it’s a futile experience and it’s not worth thinking about. Because life just unfolds. Provided you do your best and you think you’re on the right track, you can only be right or wrong. But to regret it-I don’t think there are any huge errors or misdemeanors. You know, I should have hung out with Elvis a bit more.

When it’s your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

All I could think about was, ‘I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.’

I don’t actually own a car.