John Legend – A World View Interview

John Legend – A World View Interview

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[A World View Interview With John Legend ]

Josh Sundquist Source: LYBIO.net
What’s up, YouTube? My name is Josh Sundquist. I’m a YouTube partner and a motivational speaker. I’m thrilled today to be in New York City with nine-time Grammy Award winner John Legend. John, thanks for being with us.

John Stephens (born December 28, 1978)
It’s good to be here.

Josh Sundquist So this is how it’s gonna work. We’re gonna be talking about education today. In the last several days, thousands of people around the world have submitted questions on YouTube. The YouTube community has also voted on which questions they like best. Those are the ones we’re gonna be talking about.

John Legend
Cool. I’m excited to see what they’ve come up with.

Josh Sundquist
All right, rock and roll. First one is a video question.

John Legend
All right.

Conrrado:
Hi, I’m Conrrado, and I just wanted to know, when did you start caring about education?

John Legend
Well, I guess when I was a kid I cared about my own education. But I didn’t really think that deeply about how it affected so many other kids. When you’re in school, I think your main focus is just trying to get by, trying to get good grades, trying to get your homework done, trying to do well on the next test. And then, actually, when I was in high school, I was president of the student body at my high school…

Josh Sundquist
Nice.

John Legend Source: LYBIO.net
And one of the things that I wanted to do was start a tutoring program so that kids who were doing well in school could help those who weren’t doing so well who needed help. So I started this thing called the peer tutoring program, and, you know, at the time, I didn’t realize the situation in my school that, you know, like, 500 kids would start their freshman year of class, but only, you know, 250 would graduate, something like that. And I didn’t know I was attending a school that would be classified as a dropout factory at the time. And I was in advanced-placement classes, so I was surrounded by a bunch of smart kids, and we had the best teachers in those classes and, you know, really rigorous work. But I didn’t realize, you know, in the lower, you know, ranks of the class, there were a bunch of kids that were getting left behind and dropping out. And I actually didn’t become familiar with those statistics until I graduated and noticed that the class was a lot smaller than it was when I started. And, you know, I thought, “Oh, maybe they went to a different school.” I didn’t know what happened. But what’s happening in way too many schools in this country is a bunch of kids are dropping out of high school. And that phenomenon is particularly concentrated in some of our poorest communities and communities where kids need an education the most. And I started caring about poverty a lot, you know, growing up. You know, I would read about poverty, I would read about, you know, Martin Luther King and what he did to fight for rights and for justice, and he would lead things like the Poor People’s March, and he cared about economic inequality. And I’ve always cared about that issue. And the more resources I’ve gotten, the more power, the more fame, the more influence I’ve gotten, I’ve always wanted to use that to help people who were in poverty. And the more I looked into it, the more I saw that the most effective way to break the cycle of poverty, to make transformative change in someone’s life, to, uh, you know, when they’re stuck in something, when they’re stuck in a situation they need to get out of, the best way to empower them is to make sure they get a good education. And, unfortunately, in America and in many places around the world, far too many people don’t get a quality education. And more likely than not, if they don’t, they’re doomed to be stuck in poverty.

Josh Sundquist Source: LYBIO.net
Got ya. Here’s our next question. It’s a text question from Monique in New Jersey. “Do you think improving “the American public-education system will, in turn, “help combat poverty? And if so, where do you think education reform should begin?”

John Legend
Yeah, I mean, as you can tell from my last answer, I think education can have a very significant impact on changing the situation with poverty. If you give someone the power to know about their surroundings, the power to get a good job, the power to–to really– to really understand the world around them, then it gives them the power to get out of poverty. But a lot of times people say we have to fix poverty before we can fix education, because these kids come to school, they’re poor, they have families that may be barely literate or may not understand how to properly prepare their kids for school. And they say if we don’t fix all these surrounding conditions in their neighborhoods, then there’s no way we can fix the schools. But my argument is, and I think the argument of many education reformers is that the only way we’re gonna fix poverty is to fix education, rather than vice versa.

Josh Sundquist
Yeah, that’s the way to break the cycle.

John Legend
Yeah, and once you decide that, you know, the government and society has a huge influence on these kids for seven, eight hours a day– six, seven, eight hours a day– the bulk of their awake hours are spent in school or doing homework, that means that what goes on in that setting is going to have a huge impact on their lives. And to the extent that we can control those surroundings and make those surroundings the most conducive to learning, the most productive, the most enriching for these kids’ lives, we can truly change their lives.

Josh Sundquist Source: LYBIO.net
All right, next question. Another text question from Claw in Utah. He says, “Studies show that a person’s home life “is more important than school “in predicting academic success. “As we reform schools,
“how do we ensure that home-life supplements, “like social-service programs, work with schools to boost achievement?”

John Legend
I agree that home life is a huge factor in a kid’s life. I mean, you can pretty much predict how well a kid’s gonna do in life based on, you know, poverty level, based on the neighborhood that they grow up in, based on the education of their parents. Those factors are usually very reliable predictors of someone’s future success. The only caveat I would say about that is, given all of that, the thing that the government, that society, that we as a broader community have so much control over is what happens in the four walls of a school between, you know, 8:00 and 4:00 or, you know, whatever the times are that the kids are in school. We can’t control every aspect of their home life. We can’t control every aspect of their neighborhood life, but what happens in the school is actually very impactful in a kid’s life. And a lot of kids come from poverty, come from tough neighborhoods, come from, you know, parents that didn’t go to college, and do well. And a lot of them are concentrated in school environments that are really good and doing great work. And so the question we can ask ourselves is– We know that, you know, poverty has an impact on these kids’ lives. We know that their parental situation has a big impact on their lives– some of them have single parents – all these things, we know all these factors, but if we take those as a given, what can we change, what can we control, what can we impact? Source: LYBIO.net And what I’ve seen with schools that are being successful around the country that those schools can change the trajectory of those kids. Where we would expect them to do poorly in life because they come from poverty, these schools are changing that trajectory. They’re sending them to college despite the odds. They’re getting their test scores up despite the odds. So that shows me that an effective school with effective leadership and great teachers can change the trajectory of these kids’ lives. So we can keep saying, you know, “Until we fix poverty, we can’t fix education.” But we know that schools around the country are saying, “Despite the fact “that these kids come in with all these disadvantages, “we’re going to educate our kids, and we’re going to not accept ‘no’ for an answer.” And the schools that are succeeding are doing that because they go in with that mentality, that we have to raise our expectations for these kids. They can do better than what people thought they could do. And they’re proving that that’s true.

Josh Sundquist
So education is the place to focus?

John Legend
I believe that. And I still think it’s important that our social services are intact, and a lot of the schools that are doing well are doing so because they’re taking the emotional life of the kids into account as well. So they understand these kids have traumatic circumstances sometimes at home. So they have more robust counseling, take the whole kid’s well-being and their health into consideration as well. So that doesn’t mean all you care about are schools, and you don’t care about their emotional and physical well-being. It’s not an either/or question. I think it’s more of a “both” question.

Josh Sundquist
Yeah, that there can be a holistic approach.

John Legend
Yeah, absolutely. And there are plenty of schools that I’ve seen that are very successful at taking that holistic approach. But no one wins by saying, “Well, until you fix all those other things, you can’t fix the schools.” No one wins by doing that. We have to say, “Let’s do both.”

Josh Sundquist
Sweet. Next question. Another text question from CoffeeCream in Van Nuys, California. “What volunteer work can we do to help raise awareness about the importance of reading?”

John Legend
Well, reading is so important, and you’d be amazed at how poorly some of our kids do on reading tests, how many of our schools– how many of our kids go into– even to high school being functionally illiterate. We need to make sure that our kids can read before they can learn anything else. And so volunteering to help with that is important. You know, a lot of the schools I work with offer tutoring programs for the kids, where community members can come in and volunteer. And my theory is that any person who has the ability to help out should figure out a way to get in touch with a local school in their community and say, “What can I do to help?” We have to realize that these kids are our kids, you know? We have to–You know that saying “it takes a village”? I think that’s a real thing.

Josh Sundquist Source: LYBIO.net
Yeah.

John Legend
Our communities need to take ownership of our schools and say, “It’s important that these schools “develop and produce kids who are gonna contribute to society.” And the only way that’s gonna happen is if we say, “We’re all in this together, and we want to make sure these kids do well.” Even if they’re not your flesh and blood, they’re part of your community, and they’re gonna affect the health and the well-being of your community for a long time. So anybody who has the ability and the resources to tutor, to donate, to do anything they can to help their local schools, I think it’s a great thing to do.

Josh Sundquist
All right, next question, video.

Chris: Source: LYBIO.net
Hi, I’m Chris from San Diego. And I was wondering, in economically disadvantaged families, there’s a lot of pressure to start working full-time as soon as possible. How can you change the thought process to make education more valuable than earning money for a family that really needs it?

John Legend
Well, that’s a good question. I’m not that familiar with that issue. I know–I mean, even in my family, we didn’t have a lot of money, and I needed to work in high school and in college to survive. My parents didn’t have enough to– You know, even if I just wanted spending money to go to McDonald’s or whatever or if I wanted to buy a pair of shoes that I wanted, the only way I was gonna get that was by working. So I worked throughout high school as soon as I was old enough to do so. And I worked throughout college. And I think, you know, that’s the reality of a lot of kids’ circumstance, and you hope they’ll be in a situation where they don’t have to do that, but the reality is that a lot of kids will have to work. But I think most parents understand the value of a good education, even if they didn’t get it themselves. Most parents that I encounter, even if they didn’t go to college, they want their kid to go to college. I was part of the film “Waiting for Superman,” and you’ll see in the film a lot of these families are struggling. They know they didn’t get the kind of education that they would have hoped they could have gotten, but they want better for their kids. And I would say most parents that I encounter, even in the poorest of situations, they want better for their kids, and they want them to do the best they can. And they know that college is a part of fulfilling the American dream, and they want that for their kids.

Josh Sundquist
Yeah. All right, next question from Melissa in Seattle. “While I appreciate anyone who cares about public education, “I wish you considered more voices like Diane Ravitch. “Charters, Teach for America, “and privatization of public schools “are not the only possible answers to failing schools. What do you say?”

John Legend Source: LYBIO.net
I would say– Well, I have considered Diane Ravitch’s opinions. I’ve read quite a bit of her writings, and I’m a little bit frustrated sometimes, because when I read her writings, it strikes me that she seems particularly obsessed with criticizing charter schools and saying that any of their results are, you know, illusions or that they’re overinflated. And she seems like she’s a bit on a mission to destroy the reputation of charter schools. And I feel like the last editorial I read that she wrote in “The New York Times,” I just saw so many straw men, so many mischaracterizations of her opponents’ views, and a significant amount of intellectual dishonesty in her writing. So it made me wonder, “Well, what’s her mission?” I don’t understand what her goal is if she’s not making arguments that are based on kind of a well-rounded view of the facts. The facts are there are some charter schools that are successful. There are some charter schools that are not. But a significant number of charter schools are very successful, to the extent that we should want to learn why they’re so successful. Not try to knock down the statistics. We should want to figure out what is so– what is the reason that these schools are so successful, and how can we replicate that? I’m not devoted to the charter model. I think–I’m devoted to good schools wherever they come. And if we find out that other types of, you know, school authorization… mechanisms work, I don’t care about the authorization mechanism and how these schools are organized. Source: LYBIO.net I care that they’re doing the best job for these kids. If you’re a kid, if you’re a parent in a tough community, all you care about is getting that lifeline. You want to go to a great school that’s gonna have great teachers, that’s gonna prepare you for success. You don’t care whether it’s a charter. You don’t care whether it’s a traditional public school. And by the way, charters are public schools. So it’s kind of a false argument to say this is all about privatization and corporatization of schools, because charters are public schools, and they’re actually funded less than traditional public schools. And they have to go out and raise a lot of their money so that they can operate on a par with traditional public schools. So, you know, I want good schools to be in every community, and if we see that certain schools are doing a great job, let’s not try to tear them down, let’s not try to find reasons to criticize them. Let’s make all of our schools better. Let’s make all of our schools accountable. And if they’re charter schools, if they’re traditional public schools, or if they’re private schools, we want all of our kids to go to great schools.

Josh Sundquist
Mm-hmm. So, for you, it’s not necessarily about charter schools versus traditional public schools. It’s about what works best, and let’s do that.

John Legend
Yeah, and the thing that’s been– that has excited people about the charter-school movement is that these schools have had freedom to work outside of the traditional regime. And when you need radical change to improve the outcomes of these kids, sometimes you need to go outside the traditional regime to find what works, because, otherwise, you have all these rules. You have these work rules that say you can’t work past a certain amount of time. You can’t fire ineffective teachers. You have all these rules that are saying you can’t do this and that, and no organization can run if they don’t have the freedom to experiment and do things that might work. If things have been not working for so long, you need to figure out what’s gonna work, and charter schools have had the freedom to learn what might work, when traditional schools have been failing at that mission. And so… this argument is kind of set up in a way that is not conducive for us to really reform the schools. It’s saying charter versus public. First of all, charter schools are public schools. And it should be about charter versus public. It should be about, where are the good schools? Why are they working? How can we replicate it?

Josh Sundquist Source: LYBIO.net
Hmm. Next question from SoulBrotha in Oakland, California. “Considering the dropout rate in low-income communities “in conjunction with the overall cuts to education “in terms of jobs and programs, “how can we prevent education from becoming another color line?”

John Legend
Oh, it’s too late. It already is. We have to change that story, but it is– I mean, it’s been a part of the color line since, you know, America’s existence. Slavery. When black folks were enslaved, they weren’t educated. They were denied an education then. After slavery, with Jim Crow, it was very difficult for a black person to get a good education. And in America now, not explicitly along racial lines, but because of poverty, because schools are usually community-based and based on, you know, property values and property taxes in that community, if you’re poor, it’s difficult for you to go to a quality school. So it’s just really a perpetuation of–of an unfortunate part of America’s legacy.

Josh Sundquist Source: LYBIO.net
Hmm.

Phil Martinez
Hi, my name is Phil Martinez. And I was wondering, since you’re a musician and also a charity worker, how do you manage your time?

John Legend Source: LYBIO.net
Well, I was in the studio till 2:00 a.m. last night. Wrote a new song.

Josh Sundquist
All right. Like, the whole thing? Like, you started and finished, like–

John Legend Source: LYBIO.net
Yeah, we started and finished a song. That’s how I write. I usually do everything in one sitting. So it usually takes, like, four or five hours to try to write a good song. Some are better than others. Some are worse than others. But I did that last night, and then I woke up at 7:00 this morning to get ready to be here. And, you know, that’s just my life. And, you know, I do the things that I want to do and that I love to do. I don’t wake up and do anything that I don’t want to do. I love doing this. I love talking about education. I love helping kids get a quality education and being a part of the solution to a really important problem in this country. And I also love making music, and I’m about to go on tour with Sade and have a great time. So, you know, I make it work.

Josh Sundquist
That’s cool. Next question, a text question from Australia. “I work as an ambassador for Teach for Australia “and was wondering, “what do you think the key is to encouraging young people “to make a difference through the program “despite the allure of the awaiting corporate world?”

John Legend
Well… fortunately for education recruiters, not fortunately for the country, but we’re in a bit of a recession, and it’s pretty much a global recession. And so young people are finding that it’s not so easy to find a corporate job coming out of school, anyway. So this creates an opportunity for education recruiters to say, “Hey, why don’t you consider working in education?” Maybe you won’t spend the rest of your life working in education, but maybe you’ll spend a significant amount of your 20s doing it or whatever. Use this great knowledge that you’ve gained going to college and help somebody else. So I think it appeals to people’s altruism, and there’s an economic argument for it at this point because of the lack of other options that are out there for people graduating from school. Now, the question is for the future, though, from a public-policy perspective, is, do we want education to be, like, the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth option for a talented college graduate? Or do we want it to move up on the list? And the only way we’re gonna be able to do that is to make it more attractive, and, honestly, I think we should pay teachers more.

Josh Sundquist Source: LYBIO.net
Yeah.

John Legend
Make it a more appealing profession for our most talented kids. If you see places like Finland or other countries where they have highly successful schools, part of the reason is that a lot of their top graduates are going to teach after college. In the U.S., that’s not normally the case.

Josh Sundquist
Right.

John Legend
And so, if we want to change that story, we need to make teaching more attractive for our top college graduates. And part of that is going to be making sure that teachers get paid well. And then, additionally, we have to make sure they have a great environment to work in, an environment that fosters creativity, accountability, challenges them in the right ways and develops them in the right ways.

Josh Sundquist Source: LYBIO.net
Yeah. And you’re on the board for Teach for America.

John Legend
Yes, I’m on the board for Teach for America. And fortunately for Teach for America, the issue hasn’t been the lack of qualified candidates. There’s been lots of young people that want to get involved, and like I said, the state of the economy actually helps with that story. For that to be sustainable where we always have a bunch of great kids that want to teach, again, like I said, I think we need to make the career more attractive.

Josh Sundquist
Yeah, yeah, ’cause it seems like that’s one of the things that TFA has done really well, is sort of make education a– like, sort of not only, like, a valid but sort of a prestigious option.

John Legend
Yeah, and they make it a mission. If you read Wendy Kopp’s book, you know that there’s a certain zeal that the organization has, that she has, that the young people that join the organization have. You know, they’ve drunk the Kool-Aid in a certain sense, in a good way. They really believe that real change can happen if we’re serious about it and if we devote ourselves to putting a great teacher in every classroom, to putting great school leaders and great superintendents in charge that are really interested in raising the expectations and raising the bar for the schools. And once those young people spend a few years in the schools and see what’s possible, then a lot of them go on to become some of the most influential reformers, because they know what they saw, they know what they were able to do in their short time teaching, and they say, you know, “We’ve got to do better as a school system.” The founders of KIPP schools were Teach for America alumni, and they learned what was possible by being out there. Source: LYBIO.net In their first year, they struggled. You know, they got better as they went along as teachers. But they learned that great teachers can make really transformative change in kids’ lives. And they wanted to have a school system that fostered that and developed that, and they founded one of the highest-performing groups of charter schools in the country and, I believe, the largest group, which is KIPP schools. And they do amazing, amazing work. They, um–They, um, are highly accountable. They measure themselves on any number of factors, like college-graduation rates, high-school-graduation rates, test scores, all these things. They really want to make a real impact, and they set their expectations very high. And part of that zeal, part of that passion for reform, came from their experience in Teach for America. So I think it’s a powerful way to involve really talented, motivated young people in our education system. We need more people like that.

Josh Sundquist
Yeah. Next question from MrSticky. “Being a musical artist yourself, “what are your thoughts on the arts in school? “Should they be cut or kept? I’m gonna go ahead and assume that you’re gonna think they should be kept. “If the latter,” though– here’s the interesting part of the question– “are they in need of more funding, or is the funding in need of more management?”

John Legend Source: LYBIO.net
Well, first of all, very clearly the arts have made a huge impact in my life. And a lot of that happened in school. You know, I don’t watch “Glee,” but I get the sense that “Glee” actually is helpful in this argument right now.

Josh Sundquist
Yeah, I think so.

John Legend Source: LYBIO.net
Because what’s happening with “Glee” is that people are seeing that the arts– They’re, you know, seeing it on television, that the arts can be such an important part of the lifeblood of a school, part of the education that kids receive, because education is not just about standardized tests. It’s not just about math. It’s not just about, you know, kind of the harder subjects. Part of it is about understanding yourself, understanding how you relate to others, understanding critical thinking and how to craft an argument, how to understand other people’s point of view. And a lot of that is developed through the arts. And I-I feel so sad knowing that because of, you know, budget crunches and all these other things that some kids won’t get the kind of arts education that I was able to get in school, which was such a powerful thing for me. It brought me out of my shell. It made me more excited to come to school every day. And these things–We can’t take these things for granted. I think they really make a big difference in kids’ lives. And, actually, I think some studies even show that it helps you with your math. So, when you see all of that, again, I hate that we have to have an either/or kind of debate about these things. It should be all of the above. It shouldn’t be math and reading and history versus the arts. It should be all of the above. And they complement each other and sustain each other. And so I’m of the belief that we need to make sure our schools are fully funded in a way that they need to be funded to make sure we have great teachers, make sure we have all the programs that kids need to succeed. And if that means we have to cut back on other things in our society, then so be it. If that means we have to raise taxes, then so be it.

Josh Sundquist
All right, next question from Andy in New York. “What inspires you to perform? “In addition, what also keeps you motivated and performing at a high level?”

John Legend Source: LYBIO.net
Well, I love music. I’ve loved music since I was a kid. I love being onstage. I love writing a song. I love the feeling that I get when a song comes together and it just feels right and I just know I’m gonna be proud to sing it onstage in front of, you know, thousands of people. I love it. I love what I do. And I’m also ambitious, and I’m also– I’m also competitive. So I want to win. I want to be successful at what I do. And so I’m committed to working hard. I’m committed to going to the studio and working on a song, you know, the umpteenth version of it to make sure I get it exactly right. I’m committed to that. I’m committed to rehearsing with my band till we get the show exactly right. We want to do the best show in the business. And so part of it is just my love for music, part of it is me being competitive, but all of that makes me want to perform at a high level.

Josh Sundquist
Yeah, it doesn’t sound like motivation is an issue for you.

John Legend Source: LYBIO.net
Yeah, I mean, like I said, I get to do what I love to do every day, and I don’t take that for granted, and I want to continue to try to be the best at it.

Josh Sundquist
One more music question. “Who is your greatest musical influence?”

John Legend
I think my greatest musical influence is Stevie Wonder. But I’ve listened to so many different artists overtime. Some other people that are influential to me are Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Jeff Buckley, The Beatles. Those are some of my favorite artists and people that, uh… you know, I’ve taken things from and tried to, you know, see how I could incorporate it into my own music.

Josh Sundquist Source: LYBIO.net
Got ya. All right, so, now, there’s a section here at the end of the interview called “The Big Three” with three questions from World View. “What is one experience that changed your view of the world?”

John Legend
Well… that’s interesting. There’s been many. One significant experience was getting involved with Jeffrey Sachs, who is a professor at Columbia and one of the leading thinkers in the world on the global economy and particularly around development in developing countries. And I read his book called “The End of Poverty,” and then I found him after reading his book and said, you know, “I would love to do some work with you all and see if I could help out.” I went on a trip with his organization to Ghana and to Tanzania.
And we ended up adopting one of the Millennium Villages in Tanzania and started the Show Me campaign really as a response to what we saw when we went out to Africa. And so I would say that was a significant experience in my life that really changed my world view and made me more and more committed to fighting poverty around the world.

Josh Sundquist
Yeah, sound like it was a big influence…

John Legend Source: LYBIO.net
Yeah.

Josh Sundquist
On your work. Here we go. Number two of The Big Three. “If you could ask any world leader a question, what would it be, and who would you ask?”

John Legend
Well, I guess right now I would love to sit– You know, I’m friendly with President Obama. But I haven’t really gotten to sit with him since, you know, when he was a senator and he was still thinking about running for president.

Josh Sundquist
Yeah.

John Legend Source: LYBIO.net
And I would love to sit with him for an hour and have, like, a candid conversation about what’s going on in America and what’s going on in the world. I feel like we’re at a really interesting time right now. We’re at an interesting time when it comes to kind of overall fiscal policy, overall direction of the country, when it comes to education, when it comes to the environment, when it comes to the wars that are happening in, you know, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the conflict in Libya. There’s so many interesting things going on in the world, and President Obama has, you know, all this intelligence, the, you know– his mental intelligence but also the intelligence that he’s hearing from, you know, the CIA and all these other sources. And it must be interesting to talk to someone who knows so much about what’s going on in the world and see what their perspective is on how to fix it. And I would love to have a candid conversation, you know, outside of the kind of– the kind of gotcha politics that, you know, he has to be wary of when he’s in interviews. I would love to just have a candid conversation about it.

Josh Sundquist
Yeah. And then the final question of The Big Three– “What is the biggest problem facing the next generation, and what can we do to solve it?” And this is also your last question from YouTube World View.

John Legend
Well, I think… I don’t know if there’s one problem that I could say is the biggest problem. Obviously, I’ve chosen to focus on education. And I think it’s really important for me, because I’m of the belief that every life is valuable, that every kid should have an opportunity to succeed, an opportunity to shine, an opportunity to be the best they can be. And I feel like if they don’t get the opportunity to get a great education, then they won’t be able to fully realize themselves and be the best person that they can be. And so that’s why I’ve chosen to focus on that. I believe it will impact so many other aspects of life. It’ll impact crime. It’ll impact the economy. It’ll impact the way we relate to each other, you know, across ethnic lines and across international lines. I think education is such a powerful tool to change the world.
And we need to do a better job around the world of making sure that more kids are able to get a good education.

Josh Sundquist
Well, John, thanks so much for coming in today. Appreciate your time.

John Legend Source: LYBIO.net
It’s a pleasure.

Josh Sundquist
I’m Josh Sundquist. This is John Legend. I encourage you after this video to check out John’s channel on YouTube, youtube.com/johnlegend. I’d be honored if you check out my channel, youtube.com/joshsundquist. And I also encourage you to check out youtube.com/edu, an amazing channel put together by YouTube, where you can learn about everything, from playing the piano to nuclear physics and everything in between. Thanks again for watching. I’m Josh Sundquist.

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