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" I feel like fashion is making steps toward diversity, but I think they could do more. "

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" Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three. "

" You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons. "

" I want to move people. "

" Hip hop is usually a bunch of guys talking to a bunch of guys, in my experience. It's homosocial, not homosexual, in that it's almost always all one gender in a room where it's being created. That locker-room environment has an impact on the language. I think the music suffers 'cause it allows an almost cartoonish level of misogyny. "

" I work with a bunch of producers on every album, but the difference for 'Evolver' was that I couldn't get any time with Kanye. I forget what he was doing at the time, but he was all over the place. We were never at the same city at the same time. "

" I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that. "

" Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules. "

" London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting. "

" I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences. "

" 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. "

" I was a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan. I just loved the whole thing. Always interesting, always urgent. The stakes were always high. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that. "

" Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone. "

" Instead of investing our resources in locking people up, let's invest more of those resources in our fellow citizens so they don't end up in the system to begin with. And if they do, they can get back on their feet. "

" I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad. "

" It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard. "

" 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. "

" As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth. "

" My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years. "

" The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life. "

" 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. "

" We should care about what is going on in the world. "

" I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6. "

" The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire. "

" The video aside, 'P.D.A' is a song about when you really love somebody, you just can't resist wanting to show that out in public sometimes. "

" To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun. "

" I was a wedding singer as a teenager. "

" My style is pretty clean, classic, and elegant, with some elements to make it a little funkier. If you see me on a normal day, I'm usually in a T-shirt and jeans, maybe with some cool sneakers, but I'm pretty basic. "