I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life. — Alicia Keys Copy Share
I like to incorporate classical songs that people know and throw a beat and some guitars on it to make it real crazy. It's… — Alicia Keys Copy Share
There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's… — Alicia Keys Copy Share
I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding,… — Alicia Keys Copy Share
I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place. — Alicia Keys Copy Share
I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be. — Alicia Keys Copy Share
There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self. — Alicia Keys Copy Share
I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my… — Alicia Keys Copy Share
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… — Alicia Keys Copy Share
Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's… — Alicia Keys Copy Share
