Sometimes I Just Think People Are Haters.

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.

It's An Artist's Duty To Reflect The Times In Which We Live.

Why Wouldn't I Help? What Good Reason Do I Have As A Human Being With Power And A Sense Of Empathy And Morality, Why Wouldn't I Do Something?

It's Important For Us To Fight For Certain Changes That Need To Happen. And One Of Those Issues That I Really Care About Is Education. But Also Another One Is Incarceration.

I Just Want My Music To Measure Up To. Part Of It's Just Thinking About My Place In History And How This Music Is Going To Be Perceived, If It's Listened To 30, 40 Years From Now.