Alicia Keys

The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.

I love learning about different religions, and discovering the different ways to worship, and to love the greatness and the higher being that surrounds us all. I definitely believe in a bigger presence, and I really respect all religions; at their core they all teach the same message – community and kindness and looking out for each other.

My wish for us all is to love and adore ourselves just as much as we do everyone else!

I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it

When you’re first figuring yourself out, you care so much about what people think of you.

[on Serena Williams] You are THE epitome of grace and prowess!!! You are an inspiration to all of us. Your purpose to be a leader and a light is a gift to the world!! We love you and thank you for sharing your greatness and spirit!

I think I’m prone to panic.

Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

I think London’s sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics.

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.

When you go to Marvel, they lock you in a room with the scripts; they really are that secretive.

[On trying to get out of the part of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line] I called my attorney. My agent. My manager. I said “You know y’all, you’re serious about this? I’m really.. I gotta get out of this. Like can’t they call ‘Leann Rimes’? I mean she’s good.

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.

Besides, I’m a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Last year in L.A. county 150 out of 151 incumbents ran unopposed. And come on. They could at least go through the motions of pretending there was another candidate. Just throw a robe on a pelican and tape a gavel to his wing. Or – I’ll tell you what – you’re in L.A. Just pretend you’re considering Blake Lively for the job. Movie studios do that all the time.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war –for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

I love the ’80s. I’m obsessed with it. I love the hair and the people.

As you get older, your fingers sometimes swell. But I’ve missed 18 days in 65 years. Sometimes guys will just take off; I’ve never done that. If I’m booked to play, I go and play.

No one to talk with, all by myself. No one to walk with, but I’m happy on the shelf.

I’m always eager to return to the hospitality of the Southern states….Towns and cities that hold fond memories for me personally, places that gave birth to so much of the music I love.