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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.
John Roger Stephens
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My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.
John Roger Stephens
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As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.
John Roger Stephens
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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.
John Roger Stephens
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I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.
John Roger Stephens
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Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.
John Roger Stephens
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I was a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan. I just loved the whole thing. Always interesting, always urgent. The stakes were always high.
John Roger Stephens
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I feel like fashion is making steps toward diversity, but I think they could do more.
John Roger Stephens
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With Tinder and all these other things, there's always this kind of illusion with infinite choices. There's something very cool about saying, 'Oh, I actually really care about this person, and I want to commit to loving this person and being loyal to this person.' You can't get that from the kind of infinite multiple choices that are out there.
John Roger Stephens
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I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.
John Roger Stephens
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My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music.
John Roger Stephens
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I played classical as a kid.
John Roger Stephens
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We should care about what is going on in the world.
John Roger Stephens
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We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
John Roger Stephens
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For me as a songwriter, I love when other people cover my songs.
John Roger Stephens
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London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.
John Roger Stephens
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I like things that feel like they're timeless and really well made and tailored... things that make me feel confident when I leave the house.
John Roger Stephens
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I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.
John Roger Stephens
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Artists are, I think in general, compassionate people, and part of what makes us artists is that we're open-minded people, and I think we're almost, by definition, progressive in a lot of ways.
John Roger Stephens
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I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you.
John Roger Stephens
