Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

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.

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

It's important for us to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care about is education. But also another one is incarceration.

People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend and to be who I am as a star, as an artist, it's a risk 'cause I - you know, I graduated from college and worked as a management consultant, and I could have had this very kind of buttoned-up life and worn suits to work every day.

I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.