Top 180 Alicia Keys Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “And Im happy that Im not super skinny.”

— Alicia Keys

152. “As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.”

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

154. “My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.”

— Alicia Keys

155. “Sometimes I’ve gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.”

— Alicia Keys

156. “The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.”

— Alicia Keys

157. “When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.”

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

159. “Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.”

— Alicia Keys

160. “I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn’t me.”

— Alicia Keys

161. “I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.”

— Alicia Keys

162. “I’ve always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.”

— Alicia Keys

163. “Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.”

— Alicia Keys

164. “I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I’m able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I’m able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.”

— Alicia Keys

165. “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.”

— Alicia Keys

166. “I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.”

— Alicia Keys

167. “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

168. “I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people’s minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.”

— Alicia Keys

169. “I’m so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that’s the tricky part.”

— Alicia Keys

170. “It’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.”

— Alicia Keys

171. “I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.”

— Alicia Keys

172. “I think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.”

— Alicia Keys

173. “The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.”

— Alicia Keys

174. “I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you’d better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that’s going to shape them. They are going to become you.”

— Alicia Keys

175. “I love the written word so much, I know it’s gonna flow naturally.”

— Alicia Keys

176. “And when I reveal my true heart, not everyone is going to approve. What I know now is that I don’t need them to.”

— Alicia Keys

177. “When you’re talented, you’re talented.”

— Alicia Keys

178. “Not because I’m trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.”

— Alicia Keys

179. “I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn’t want to be all dressed up, all made up – I wanted to be myself, which hadn’t been done before.”

— Alicia Keys

180. “I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn’t recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character.”

— Alicia Keys

181. “For as long as I am alive, I will be growing and improving, wielding my pen as the author of my own forever. But even as I lift my life to the next level, I hope to always recognize my reflection. I want to know who I am and accept every part of that identity. I am frightened and I am fearless. I am weak and a warrior. I am uncertain and I am confident. And by learning to embrace the paradox in all of it, I am more myself.”

— Alicia Keys

182. “There’s also the multicultural side of me, the biracial ancestry that allows me to connect with a wide spectrum of people. And then there’s my spirit, that blend of glass-half-full optimism, introverted reflection, and outward-facing social activism.”

— Alicia Keys

183. “The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.”

— Alicia Keys

184. “I don’t dream – only if I’m uncomfortable or I’m going through something.”

— Alicia Keys

185. “The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.”

— Alicia Keys

186. “I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That’s why I still love to sleep on couches now.”

— Alicia Keys

187. “I’ve found that the best life has to offer is right in front of me, with my husband and child.”

— Alicia Keys

188. “I definitely wanted freedom, but I wasn’t yet ready to step into it, embody it, breathe it, own it.”

— Alicia Keys

189. “We adjust ourselves to fit, to adapt to others’ ideas of who we should be. We shift ourselves not in sweeping pivots, but in movements so tiny that they are hardly perceptible, even in our view. Years can pass before we finally discover that, after handing over our power piece by small piece, we no longer even look like ourselves.”

— Alicia Keys

190. “If I can remain excited about the music that I’m giving you, then you’re damn sure going to be excited about it.”

— Alicia Keys

191. “We don’t draw loved ones into our lives coincidentally. They’re there to shine a light on our unfinished emotional business, to reveal to us our deepest tendencies. And as my life is proving to me even now, those patterns appear time and again, often cleverly disguised. And they’ll keep right on showing up until we’re willing to truly look at them.”

— Alicia Keys

192. “The world can be a challenging place for us women to navigate. We often find ourselves feeling burned out, incapable, and lonely and yet we’re still so resilient.”

— Alicia Keys

193. “It has been said that a girl grows up to choose a man who either bears a striking resemblance to her father, or one who is nothing like him. Both choices are, at their core, reactions.”

— Alicia Keys