Alicia Keys had her breakout hit, «Fallin,'» when she was 20 years old and subsequently rose to worldwide fame and achieved considerable critical success, the 39-year-old singer says she actually very much disliked that time in her life.Keys covers magazine's July cover and says she definitely would not want to go back to her more youthful days.«I swear, I wouldn't go back to being 20 if somebody paid me — it was literally the worst time ever,» she tells the publication. «I wanted to fit in so desperately.
I was so blind, so dependent on everybody else's opinions, so uncomfortable, so unclear.»Keys grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen and says she didn't have the confidence then to express her thoughts and feelings.