Quotes About Memories

I have done my share of karaoke. There is a karaoke place right around the corner from me, and I have been there maybe 800 of 1,000 days I've been in L.A. A lot of songs I know now because of that place. I dig karaoke and have fun with it.

I grew up with a lot of karaoke and dancing and good movies.

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

As a kid, since I was born in Kashmir, I have been to the Amarnath caves.

George and I met in 1975 at Bushey Meads secondary school in Bushey, Hertfordshire. I was in my second year - self-confident, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and excitable. He was the new boy and I was keen that I should get to look after him.

I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

I was really inspired by keeping alive these things of my childhood.

I've been keeping journals since I was 13.

I love to reread, even more than I like to read, so keeping a hold of books that I adore is very important, although they flee from me - they are always fleeing.

I listened to R. Kelly growing up.

I grew up on Jodeci and R. Kelly.

I actually knew Adlai Stevenson and Jack and Bobby Kennedy.

I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

I don't know if my mum and President Kennedy ever dated, but they were friends and there are some letters from him that she kept - sweet and innocent letters saying, 'Saw you in the play the other night and you were fantastic.'

My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.

I was born in Alton, Ill., and moved to Paducah, Ky., when I was 3 years old. I lived in Kentucky until I moved to Florida in 2015.

I have been lucky enough to go to all sorts of places - diving in Malaysia, snorkelling with wild turtles in Cuba and dolphin-spotting in Kenya.

My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.

I might be a natural show-off but being your best mate's best man is a different kettle of fish.

I think it was 'The Diary of Alicia Keys'. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money. I had a little Discman.

Our memories are the keys to our past and everything we've ever worked for, fought for, and dreamed of.

One of the first CDs I ever bought was Alicia Keys's 'MTV Unplugged' album. That album is the one I would take home and listen to on my Walkman, in my room, before I had an iPod. I learned most of the songs on piano.

First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.