I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life. Alicia Keys More Quotes by Alicia Keys More Quotes From Alicia Keys I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time. Alicia Keys being-real spirituality thinking Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing? To feel fulfillment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing. Alicia Keys understanding important mean A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring. Alicia Keys good-friend powerful beautiful If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice. Alicia Keys giving mean blood What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Alicia Keys kind suffering heart I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, "Are you doing shows?" I've just been off the road for a month-and-a-half, and he was like, "You lucky girl." Alicia Keys lucky girl talking Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down. Alicia Keys support-you letting-go people 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, love and attention can produce the biggest results. Alicia Keys understanding attention ideas I think it's the ego in us that screws us up. Alicia Keys ego screws thinking Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political. Alicia Keys best-work political artist I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician. Alicia Keys musician singing acting What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it. Alicia Keys opposites opportunity morning My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading. Alicia Keys actresses reading mother You've got to love what's yours. Alicia Keys 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. Alicia Keys honestly tiny song 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]. Alicia Keys careers stones people I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person. Alicia Keys space aliens feels The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know. Alicia Keys elements powerful fire We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake. Alicia Keys would-be mistake believe I have big everything on the bottom but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours. Alicia Keys bottom legs bigs
