When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.
I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.
John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.
I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.
Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.
Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.
I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.
Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.
I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.
I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.
The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.
I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.
