In Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics

Ebony, Nov, 2004

IN TEARS FOR WATER: SONGBOOK OF POEMS AND LYRICS (G.P. Putnam's Sons, $19.95) singer-songwriter Alicia Keys offers readers a peek into the personal, never-before-published poems from her personal journals and lyrics from her award-winning albums. She says her book title is the foundation of her writing because "everything I have ever written has stemmed from my tears of joy, of pain, of sorrow, of depression, even of question.

All of my writing has come from some form of my tears. I use these tears as water to nourish me, to quench my thirst for understanding. I don't mind drinking my tears for water."