A biography for Alicia Keyshasn’t been written yet.
“When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.”
“I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.”
“When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.”
“I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.”
“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.”
“My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'”
“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.”
“A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.”
“I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.”
“Love me like you'll never see me again.”
“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.”
“A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.”
“I have big everything on the bottom, but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours.”
“I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.”
“Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.”
“My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.”
“Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.”
“I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down.”
“It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.”
“How terrible would it have been if I had come out with some watered-down version of who I am? People fell in love with the real me, and I still feel blessed that that was how the journey began.”