Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of it is more serious and talking about interesting issues that we think are provocative and interesting to us. Kind of on a more political level. But, you know, just things that we find interesting that we think stories that need to be told.

Music was my life...It was everything to me, even though I was in school majoring in English. I was still very focused on music and always finding ways to perform, so that was what set me up to want to become a recording artist.

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.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.