If A Relationship Is Going To Work,

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.

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.

If You Want The Film [la La Land ] To Represent All Things Jazz, It Does Not. You'll Be Disappointed By That. But, If You Just See It As One Guy's Point Of View, One Filmmaker's Point Of View, And One Story Among Many Stories That Can Be Told About Jazz, Then It's Not As Much Of An Issue.

Well, I Like Songs That Have Like A Little Bit Of Quirkiness To Them.

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.