Latest Alicia Keys Quotes from Interviews

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• 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. It reminds me to live in the moment.

  Alicia Keys

  Feelings, Live In The Moment, Energy

  "Alicia Keys Talks Inspiration, Family And Prayer With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2013.

• Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.

  Alicia Keys

  Feelings, Together, Fleeting

  "Alicia Keys Talks Inspiration, Family And Prayer With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2013.

• Many things inspire me. First and foremost, my family, my husband, and our son. I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.

  Alicia Keys

  Husband, Son, Appreciate

• I've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things.

  Alicia Keys

  Empowering, Bravery, Able

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.

  Alicia Keys

  Journey, Trying, Way

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

  Alicia Keys

  Want, Boring, Damn

  Source: www.glamour.com

• It's a beautiful blessing that I get to help raise a man. And I want to show him as much as possible.

  Alicia Keys

  Beautiful, Blessing, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

• My son makes me super giddy, especially when he laughs. His laugh makes me laugh like a maniac!

  Alicia Keys

  Son, Laughing, Make Me Laugh

  Source: www.glamour.com

• In fact, I think that's my favorite word and the most important word when it comes to relationships: equality.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, Favorite Words, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Rarely, I think, do you find a relationship where you can experience things equally.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

• You can be very fulfilled as a mother, but that can't be the only way you are fulfilled. What about being a woman? What about being yourself? Your awareness of what's happening in the world? It lives altogether in a way that makes a whole. I guess I'd say I'm the wholest I've ever been.

  Alicia Keys

  Mother, Being Yourself, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach.

  Alicia Keys

  Mom, Teaching, Fighting

  Source: www.glamour.com

• How far you go depends on what you want for yourself, how much you're willing to leave on the floor, and how much you wanna face the fears you have inside of you. It's everything we're all dealing with every day.

  Alicia Keys

  Want, Faces, Willing

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I don't know if we tell women great news about themselves enough. You'd be surprised how often a young woman doesn't hear positive things about herself - not in her home, not at school. It's hard to create a beautiful image for yourself when you've never seen it or heard it.

  Alicia Keys

  Beautiful, Home, School

  Source: www.glamour.com

• There is this fallacy about how women are catty, that we're all in competition with each other. I'd say: As opposed to getting swept up in jealousy, use that pang to give you an indication of what you are looking for.

  Alicia Keys

  Giving, Competition, Use

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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.

  Alicia Keys

  Mean, Fire, Care

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, Emotion, Incredibles

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Meditation has been a big change for me in a super-positive way. I see the result and strength and clarity - even my creativity is different and more connected. It might be 10 minutes a day; it might be 20 minutes a day. But every day in this crazy world, it's a sense of peace and purpose.

  Alicia Keys

  Crazy, Creativity, Meditation

  Source: www.glamour.com

• My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So, growing up, I was always looking for my connection. I've found myself praying before meals, before bed; there's always been this gratitude for things that are bigger than me.

  Alicia Keys

  Mother, Gratitude, Growing Up

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Alicia Keys

  Beautiful, Powerful, Unique

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Alicia Keys

  Self, Waiting, Looks

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, World, Emulation

  Source: www.glamour.com

• How you look is your statement, because it's a claiming of yourself.

  Alicia Keys

  Looks, Statements

  Source: www.glamour.com

• We listen so much to everybody - more than ever, because we have a kabillion voices whose opinion we can access - and we care so much if everybody agrees with us. To bust through all of the noise is very challenging.

  Alicia Keys

  Voice, Challenges, Care

  Source: www.glamour.com

• There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat. And for me, and I would not be surprised if a lot of women feel this same way, it's this thing of not being 100 percent comfortable with myself.

  Alicia Keys

  World, Way, Defeat

  Source: www.glamour.com