New Sound On her new CD, As I Am, Keys says: ''My voice is different'' — raspy, urgent. (Hear for yourself on the addictive single ''No One.'') ''All my albums are personal, but there's so much more that I feel, and so much more I needed to say.''

New Look Out: hats, braids. In: curls, couture — and a strong body, courtesy of a marathon she ran in Greece. ''It took me five hours; it was hell. But it was amazing. When I got to the end, I started crying.''

New Attitude ''I used to be a wall-building, feeling-hiding con artist. I'm at a whole other place now. I'm gonna tell it how it is and how I feel it. I'm not gonna sacrifice my spirit for nobody.''