“If you don’t know what you want for yourself, then you’ll never, never get there.”

“If you don’t know what you want for yourself, then you’ll never, never get there … You’ll always be deterred.” Alicia Keys told Oprah at age 20. Now she preaches this self-determination.

“Hell’s Kitchen,” a musical inspired by the singer-songwriter’s teenage years in New York, is set to open Off Broadway.