Keys: "We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?"

Keys: "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."

Keys: "I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder."

Keys: "Maturity and experience are part of my liberation."

Keys: "When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six."

Keys: "I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We're capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening."

Keys: "People don't expect me to be as funny as I am."

Keys: "Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. 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."

Keys: "We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think."

Keys: "Simplicity makes me happy."

Keys: "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."

Keys: "I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is."

Keys: "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."

Keys: "I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it."

Keys: "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. It reminds me to live in the moment."

Keys: "I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally."

Keys: "My mom is definitely my rock."

Keys: "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."

Keys: "My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading."

Keys: "I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is."

Keys: "Soul music is timeless."

Keys: "How far you go depends on what you want for yourself, how much you're willing to leave on the floor, and how much you wanna face the fears you have inside of you. It's everything we're all dealing with every day."

Keys: "Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13."

Keys: "Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back."

Keys: "In fact, I think that's my favorite word and the most important word when it comes to relationships: equality."

Keys: "You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you."

Keys: "I've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things."

Keys: "You can be very fulfilled as a mother, but that can't be the only way you are fulfilled. What about being a woman? What about being yourself? Your awareness of what's happening in the world? It lives altogether in a way that makes a whole. I guess I'd say I'm the wholest I've ever been."

Keys: "It's a beautiful blessing that I get to help raise a man. And I want to show him as much as possible."

Keys: "I don't know if we tell women great news about themselves enough. You'd be surprised how often a young woman doesn't hear positive things about herself - not in her home, not at school. It's hard to create a beautiful image for yourself when you've never seen it or heard it."

Keys: "My son makes me super giddy, especially when he laughs. His laugh makes me laugh like a maniac!"