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We listen so much to everybody - more than ever, because we have a kabillion voices whose opinion we can access - and we care so much if everybody agrees with us. To bust through all of the noise is very challenging.

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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
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Harlem
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Alicia J. Augello Cook
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When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.
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Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.
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There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.
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We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.
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The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.
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I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.
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When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.
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I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.
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I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.
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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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Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's why it's so important to know who you are and stand up for something.
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I thought I had to be perfect. I would often make choices I thought would make everyone else happy. I lived at a pace that was good for my career, whether it was good for me or not. I have learned how important it is to check in with myself and listen, really listen.
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If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.
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When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.
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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.
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No one will take care of you if you don't take care of yourself.
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Every moment is beautiful delicious even! Every moment I'm learning and living in a way I never have before. Being present in a way I never have before. Existing in moments I never have before.
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I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.
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I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.
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