Alicia Keys

New artists can own their content and completely build their base and their following without having to sell or be owned by anybody and it creates such a diversity.

I want to keep redefining my work and trying new things. I want my music to be able to fit into any category. I want it to float wherever my heart goes. My music is heart music; giving it any other description is dangerous.

I want my sons to grow up in a world where they’d never think boys are better than girls or that black is better than white.

They say that every child learns from their mother – it’s ingrained from babyhood.

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

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

We don’t fall in love with people because they’re good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognize. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them – that’s the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.

If we are simply energy, neither created or destroyed, and if a body is just a body, celestial or not, why don’t you come over here and we will make collisions out of moments.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Women should serve men. Men should serve women. Any house of peace is full of servants.

Only snails know there is no rush when you learn to carry home with you.

You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

It occurred to me that love, simply stated, is replacing the need to always be right with the need to be understanding.

Thunder only happens when it’s raining; players only love you when they’re playing.

The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

To be fully seen by somebody, then and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved’s hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

Real love is freedom, and this is what you’ve been given by the Creator – the freedom to love and to choose your own path.

Crack me open and get drunk on the contents of my spirit. Warning: consuming too much may have permanent effects.