Alicia Keys has decided she wants to retire by the age of 30 – so she can spend the rest of her life travelling the world.

The 27-year-old star often finds herself exasperated by the pressures of fame and in 2006 she took a break from music and travelled to Egypt to recuperate. And the Fallin’ hitmaker insists that she hopes to be able to bow out of the entertainment industry in the next few years, so she can start enjoying her time.

She says, “I am working hard now so I have the choice to retire when I want. I would like to travel the world and stay in places instead of having to move on like I do now. I want to experience difference cultures.”

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Alicia Keys wants to follow in the footsteps of Angelina Jolie and adopt a brood of multi-racial children.

The singer insists she loves kids and working alongside South African orphans in 2006 charity movie We Are Together made her broody to have children of her own.

But the 28-year-old insists motherhood is on the backburner for now, while she pursues her singing career.

Speaking to WENN at a special screening of the movie in New York City on Thursday night, Keys said, “I’ve always loved kids. Kids are so important. It’s important to nurture and spend time with them and listen to them.

“I’m not ready to be a mom. But (adoption) is something that is important to consider. That’s what I really admire about Angelina. I think it’s beautiful the way she embraces children of the world.”

And she insists she would like to create a family of different cultures, like Jolie: “We are all one. We’re not as separate as we oftentimes think. So I possibly would (adopt), when I’m more in the motherhood stage of my life.”

Keys leads an intensely private personal life, but is rumoured to be dating and planning to marry record producer and business partner Kerry ‘Krucial’ Brothers.

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Alicia Keys has set up one of the oddest collaborations in music history by revealing she wants to work with the White Stripes.

The Fallin’ singer insists she’s keen to take her music in a different direction and would like her next album to include eclectic tracks with the White Stripes and Queens of The Stone Age.

Keys admits the White Stripes are one of her favorite bands: “They’re very raw, very cut and dry. It’s, like, drums and guitar. It’s that simple, and I love that. I think that combining that style with mine, which already has a raw feel to it, and my voice, I just think we could do something really interesting that mixes rock and soul together, the blues and emotion, and it could be really touching.”

And Keys claims the unlikely collaboration isn’t as far-fetched as some might imagine: “We’ve had some conversations. When the time works out, and it definitely will, it will happen.”

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Lindsay Lohan is casting models for a photo shoot debuting her new leggings line.

The Mean Girls actress is often seen sporting a pair of leggings, and now she’s turning her fashion favourites into what she hopes will be a money-spinner.
But the 21-year-old won’t be extending her wealth to the participants – models for the line’s first pictorial won’t be paid.

In a casting notice, the ad calls for models with “diverse, multi-cultural” looks and welcomes “off beauty”. It also specifies “no blondes please”.

The shoot is scheduled to take place on Friday May 9th in Los Angeles.

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Alicia Keys has taken to the airwaves to “clarify statements” she made about gangsta rap in men’s magazine Blender.

In the new article, the R&B star sensationally claims gangsta rap was “a ploy to convince black people to kill each other… by the government.”

But, after reading the piece in the new issue of Blender, Keys insists her comments were “misinterpreted” and she’s “disappointed” with the “madness” surrounding the article.

Speaking on Los Angeles DJ Ryan Seacrest’s radio show on Tuesday morning, Keys explained, “I feel that I wasn’t a hundred per cent clear on what I was saying and so, because of that, it got slightly misinterpreted, and somehow it got misinterpreted that I was saying that the government was creating gangsta rap – and that’s not what I was saying.

She adds, “What I was saying was that the term gangsta rap was so over sloganised during that time… That’s what I was trying to talk about. In so many ways, everyday people, as well as the government, could have really done so much more to sorta (sic) obliterate and eradicate the things that were going on in the communities at that time that forced the artists to discuss and talk about, so strongly, what they saw, what they lived with. I wasn’t saying that I’m a conspiracy theorist, and I wasn’t saying that I’m anti-anyone because anybody who knows my character knows that I’m a very positive person… My only aim is to uplift people and spread love. You’re in an interview for half and hour, 45 minutes… and you’re talking about these different thoughts and ideas and I think… there’s a way that I didn’t exactly clarify what I meant to the point where he (the journalist) could misinterpret it. I don’t regret doing this interview; overall it was a great article. It was merely a line or two that has provoked all of this madness. I regret that a negative spin has been put (on it).”

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