Alicia Keys Quotes

Still when I'm a mess I still put on a vest With an 'S' on my chest Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman

Cause I am a Superwoman, Yes I am, Yes she is, Even when I'm a mess, I still put on a vest, With an S on my chest, Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman, ... And all my sisters, Coming together, Say yes I will, Yes I can

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.

You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.

The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.

Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I've learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing.

If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.

My mom is definitely my rock.

Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to be true. I think that I've come to terms with the fact that that's just going to happen for the whole duration of my life. I feel really good about being able to look myself in the face and say, "Oh, who are you now?" And that might change.

When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.

Love me like you'll never see me again.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love...it's: Wow, life is good.

Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.

Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.

The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way.

It's karma, baby. And it goes around.

You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.

Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.

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

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.

I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.

I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.

Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.

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.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.

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.