With the words “Alicia Keys Returns with The Edgy New Sound of ‘Freedom’,” Alicia Keys covers the latest issue of Billboard magazine.

Sharing the story behind ‘Freedom’s’ title and theme, Keys tells Billboard ” I was trying to find the way to totally be myself and what that meant; figuring out what choices I wanted to make and not make in order to truly honor myself. That was the beginning of learning how to do that. And now it’s culminated into “The Element of Freedom”: the ability to have nothing holding you back; to be totally brave enough to be completely yourself in all of its glory.”

While Keys is all about freedom on this album, she has no intention to start her own label in the future. In fact, she tells Billboard running a label is like “a pain in the ass”.

“I don’t really have a desire to do my own label, to be honest with you. It’s like a pain in the ass [laughs], because you’ve got to deal with so much irrelevant stuff,” says Keys. “To do like me times six or seven other people, I don’t know. I might totally lose it. I have more of a desire to bring talented people to the forefront and help support them. That’s why I see myself doing more of the writer/producer thing. But not necessarily running a label because labels are dying. It’s a whole different world.”

Keys’ ‘The Element of Freedom” is due in stores this December.