​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

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.

There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.

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

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.

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

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.