Alicia Keys was her own woman even when she was just a little girl growing up in Hell's Kitchen. On a Saturday morning in Harlem, Oprah and the 23-year-old classically trained five-time Grammy-winning sensation sat down and had a real conversation. The phenomenal singer and songwriter opens up heart and soul about her leap to superstardom: the good, the bad, the ugly of divadom; and how she handles the question, why me?

"When I was working on The Color Purple, Quincy Jones said to me, 'Your future is so bright it burns my eyes.' I feel the same way about Alicia. The depth of who she'll become will startle her and the rest of the world." — Oprah