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.

John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.

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.

Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy in you that you really want to make something creative and make something that's going to impact the world, then go for it, do it and don't let anybody tell you no.

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.