John Legend

He started with his childhood in Springfield, Ohio, where he grew up surrounded by music at his family's church and where his grandmother taught him to play the piano. He recalled her death, when he was ten: "I think she's still watching me from somewhere". He also spoke about the depression and addiction that kept his mother away from the family for years, and about how that story ended: she has now been in recovery for decades. He looked back on his years as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group, before leaving it all for music, and on the moment Kanye West began calling him "John Legend".

Legend told how he met Chrissy Teigen on the set of a music video and how he wrote "All of Me" while they were engaged; the first time he performed it was on their wedding day. He recalled that at fifteen he had already written that he wanted to use his success to fight for a fairer society. And he closed with this thought: "We've grown used to too much technology and too much artifice. I think we all need to get back to being real, vulnerable and connected to one another".