Hip-hop And R&b Are Especially Fertile Bases

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.

We Have A Serious Problem With Incarceration In This Country. It's Destroying Families, It's Destroying Communities And We're The Most Incarcerated Country In The World, And When You Look Deeper And Look At The Reasons We Got To This Place, We As A Society Made Some Choices Politically And Legislatively, Culturally To Deal With Poverty, Deal With Mental Illness In A Certain Way And That Way Usually Involves Using Incarceration.

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.

For Me I'm Actually Doing What I Normally Do When I Do My Solo Thing And The Other Thing Is Actually More New To Me.

My Line Is Probably A Little More Conservative Than Some Of My Compatriots In The Business. But Again, I Think It's All - Like, It Just - It Comes Down To Me Knowing Who I Am And Knowing How I Want To Be Seen In The World, How I Want To Discuss Things.