Quotes By Alicia Keys

Soul music is timeless.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

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

I love my legs.

I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.

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'd rather not have anything than be a liar.

Simplicity makes me happy.

My mom is definitely my rock.

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.

I'm a very caring person.

Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

When you're talented, you're talented.

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.

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