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If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.
Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.
All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place
I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.
Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.
I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.
I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population.
John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.
I gravitate toward people that are a little more outrageous than I am. And we complement each other well.
As a kid, I wanted to be a musician but also aspired to be Andy Griffith's lawyer character, Ben Matlock.
I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.
Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.
Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.
I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.
To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.
In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.
Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone.
I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.
We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.
As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.
I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.
For me I'm actually doing what I normally do when I do my solo thing and the other thing is actually more new to me.
The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.
I always figured I would live long enough to see a black president. The movies predicted it. Usually, Morgan Freeman.
The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.
I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.
I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.
I was a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan. I just loved the whole thing. Always interesting, always urgent. The stakes were always high.
I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.
I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.
London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.
I never went through a period where I didn't want to play music. I've always loved it and it's always been a huge part of my life.
John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.
If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.
I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.
But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.
My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.
The video aside, 'P.D.A' is a song about when you really love somebody, you just can't resist wanting to show that out in public sometimes.
At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
I like things that feel like they're timeless and really well made and tailored... things that make me feel confident when I leave the house.
Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?
I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.
I've felt like my last name put pressure on me as an artist. If you're going to call yourself "Legend," you'd better make some good-ass music.
I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom, I take pictures everywhere I go, but I don't think I can top that one.