My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.
John LegendThat'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.
John LegendI don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.
John LegendWhen I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.
John LegendYou 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