You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real. '
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'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.
There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.
The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.
We should care about what is going on in the world.
I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
We hate it when our friends become successful.
If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.