Alicia Keys Quotations

When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.

Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy.

A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn.

I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.

I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.

You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next.

The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.

I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].