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John Legend: 'What I want to do is bring light, inspiration, and beauty into the world'

Singer-songwriter and musician John Legend has revealed that his main goal is to inspire people with his songs. 

He told Fast Company magazine that when he decides to start work on a track he uses his own interests and background to inspire the direction it will take:

"I start with my own background: I was an English major and also concentrated in African-American literature, history, and culture. Even as a young person, I used to read a lot about Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King Jr."

"Everything we do has some connection to that interest of mine and the interests of my team. As an artist, what I want to do is bring light, inspiration, and beauty into the world. Music is the main way I do that, but our film company is trying to do that as well."

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