You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated their copyrights because there's a lot of music out there, and there's a lot of things that feel like other things that are influenced by other things. And you don't want to get into that thing where all of us are suing each other all the time because this and that song feels like another song.

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

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 always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

For me I'm actually doing what I normally do when I do my solo thing and the other thing is actually more new to me.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

It's not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.