A biography for John Legendhasn’t been written yet.
“When you're releasing an album, you never know how it's going to go. You never know how a critic is going to receive it or how much it's going to sell.”
“I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.”
“As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.”
“I remember when I first came out as an artist, back in 2004 or 2005, the record label used to take me to all the radio stations and just have me sit in, like, their lunchroom or their conference room, and play for the whole staff. Just to introduce them to me so they would play my records.”
“I always figured I would live long enough to see a black president. The movies predicted it. Usually, Morgan Freeman.”
“At work, you want to stand out but not in extra-funky ways. At the core, it's about dressing for girls - who are most of my fans - and you want to dress up for them. You just want to feel like you're on top of your game.”
“I like a lot of documentaries, I like political movies and political thrillers. But I also like a good action movie. I like a pretty wide range.”
“I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.”
“I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And then Stevie Wonder came up and sang 'Ribbon In the Sky.' It was impromptu... It was cool... He's always been a friend and a mentor to me.”
“I played classical as a kid.”
“In America we have big issues with education - in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we're encouraging more people to get into teaching.”
“If you look at what happened with Underground Railroad, there is so much action. There is so much intrigue; there is so much of historical importance.”
“With Tinder and all these other things, there's always this kind of illusion with infinite choices. There's something very cool about saying, 'Oh, I actually really care about this person, and I want to commit to loving this person and being loyal to this person.' You can't get that from the kind of infinite multiple choices that are out there.”
“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.”
“I don't have a real recipe with measurements for my chicken stew. I just kind of make it up as I go. I made it for the first time one Christmas when I came home from college. It's guaranteed to cure a cold.”
“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.”
“At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.”
“Artists are, I think in general, compassionate people, and part of what makes us artists is that we're open-minded people, and I think we're almost, by definition, progressive in a lot of ways.”
“I've always had an interest in story-telling and history and just film and art in general, but particularly when it comes to storytelling, I think the reason why we became involved in film is because we wanted to get some great stories out there.”
“I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.”