Apparently having a chart-topping album and touring all over the world just isn’t enough for Alicia Keys. Shorty makes it clear that she’s definitely not ready to slow down just yet. According to A. Key’s her current album As I Am isn’t the only thing that’s currently on her mind, she tells Billboard that she’s already thinking about recording her next album.

“I’ve been thinking about the next album since we kind of wrapped up this album.Part of what I’ve been thinking about is, ‘What are the ways that I want to express myself this time?’ When I was just finishing recording As I Am, I said to myself that I want to do something that’s totally stripped-down, stripped-back, totally piano-based, singer-songwriter; [a] Joni Mitchell, Carole King type of vibe. I might do that, but you never know where life takes you, where the music’s going to take you.”

However, A. Keys’ biggest obstacle to creating new tracks is actually finding the time to sit down and do it amidst her hectic worldwide tour schedule that has dates booked in 2009. She says,

“At this point I’m trying to find the space to continue to record as I’m on tour. That’s always a bit of a challenge for me ’cause it takes so much out of me to tour. But there’s always that urge to stay creative and write on that more personal side. So the main goal now is to continue to find that quiet space somewhere in the madness.”

Any which way you put it, we just can’t get enough of Alicia.