John Legend Thoughts

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

You can always find a stray negative comment on the Internet. It's like everybody loves to put negative comments on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity.

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.

I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.

Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.