In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

I do speak to kids a lot. I am very clear with them that not all of them should aspire to be me and not all of them should be aspire to be LeBron.

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

For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well-received.

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo 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.