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On celebrating his risky path to success and whether kids should follow in his footstepsįor me, even choosing to be John Legend, and to be who I am as a star, as an artist, it's a risk. I think it's good to have somebody like that around you if you're trying to make something great.
He'll just tell you if he doesn't like a song. He gathered all the producers that worked on the project and said, 'Our goal is to give John the album of the year.' And I look at him as one of the few geniuses that I know creatively - someone who just has so many interesting ideas that are different from other people's ideas. And he was so excited to work on this album. But he's such a generous collaborator in the sense that he really is obsessed with making great art. So when people read that from his public behavior, that's a true thing. Only he and Dave Tozer, both who co-executive produced the album, have I worked with for that long stretch of time with that level of depth. We've really been working together - collaborating, writing songs together - since late 2001. And for me to try to sound like this or that artist that is a little more kind of racy and raunchy, it just doesn't sound right coming out of me. It comes down to me knowing who I am, and knowing how I want to be seen in the world, how I wanted to discuss things. My line is probably a little more conservative than some of my compatriots in the business.