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I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.

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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
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Composer
Musician
Pianist
Poet
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Singer-Songwriter
Harlem
New York
Alicia J. Augello Cook
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Sometimes I feel good, at times I feel used. Loving you darling, makes me so confused.
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I'm in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.
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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.
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I'm definitely a nerd. I'm a cool-ass nerd, but I am definitely a nerd.
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There is this fallacy about how women are catty, that we're all in competition with each other. I'd say: As opposed to getting swept up in jealousy, use that pang to give you an indication of what you are looking for.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.
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He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in.
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Some people want it all But I don't want nothing at all If it ain't you baby If I ain't got you baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain't got you, Yeah
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A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn.
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I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.
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I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone that was what I did.
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My life is rich because I have those kinds of people in my life.
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When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
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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.
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