Alicia Keys Quotes

I grew up thinking that it's okay to be sad, angry, and express your emotions. I have also banged doors and fought, as I have seen my mom do that when she would fight with my dad. Everything that I've learnt is from them, so I've never struggled to express myself.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.

I'm intensely private. I don't like giving interviews.

I think I'm the most private out of my family.

I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.

It's not important to me that everyone knows everything about me or that I reveal all that I am or have.

I think I've been pretty private as a person. Nobody really knows me.

I don't mind to speak about myself until a certain point, but I think there's also stuff which is for myself that nobody has to know.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.

I am basically a private person.

I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.

I'm not one for a public display of my life.

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.