Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

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.

That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history.

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

Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.

In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.