For me, no matter how much money you want to make off of singing, no matter what kind of fame you want to make, achieve, the most important thing to me is making music that you're proud of, making music that comes from you, comes from an authentic place in you.

People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend and to be who I am as a star, as an artist, it's a risk 'cause I - you know, I graduated from college and worked as a management consultant, and I could have had this very kind of buttoned-up life and worn suits to work every day.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

We should care about what is going on in the world.

In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.

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.