I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

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.

I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.

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

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

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.