- We have a legend in the house.
- [John] (laughing) (audience cheering)
- Or Mr. EGOT.
- (laughing)
- (laughs) I mean,
- It's not a bad way to be introduced.
- It certainly is not when you're John Legend everybody!
(audience applauding loudly)
- I heard a story about your table at the
Vanity Fair Oscars party. - Yes, yes.
It was the most sought after table to be at.
Why? - [John] It was a great table.
- [Drew] Why?
- Well, we had great people there.
I sat with D Wade and Gabrielle Union
and Queen Latifah and
(audience cheering)
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.
And of course my beautiful wife, Chrissy, was with us and
(audience applauding)
everybody at the table is, like, very entertaining
and very talented and very cool.
We didn't know who we were sitting with and we were like,
Chrissy's, like, why don't we bring an Uno card deck
just in case. (audience laughing)
We like Uno, kids like Uno. (audience clapping)
Everybody likes Uno.
So we brought a stack of Uno cards just in case
the conversation, you know.
(audience laughing)
Lulled. - An icebreaker.
Yeah, - Also.
just to get it going.
- Yeah.
- But we actually didn't need it.
But it was funny as an icebreaker just to talk
about the fact that we had it there.
- And I wanna congratulate you
on your latest member - Thank you.
of your beautiful family. - Thank you.
(audience applauding loudly)
- [Drew] I mean...
- [John] That's Esti.
- [Drew] I mean, no. - [John] She doesn't play Uno
with us yet.
- How are your, how are her siblings reacting?
- They're doing so well, honestly, I was
a little worried - [Audience together] Aw.
because I feel like when she was still inside Chrissy,
they were like a bit jealous
that Mom was bringing a new baby into the world.
But when she came out, they were like,
they just snapped into place. (snaps fingers)
They were like trying to be really good, big siblings.
They were excited when she came home.
It just brought more energy and joy
to the house. - Really?
Yeah. - How was it with
Miles and Luna?
- They're pretty good, they're competitive sometimes though.
Sometimes they compete
over who's gonna be the best big sibling.
Like, who gets to hold her more?
And, and you know.
- I, I love every aspect of raising babies.
- It's fun.
- Like, I love the diaper changing.
- Mm hm.
- I love the tummy time and the learning when they
start seeing actual color versus just black and white.
- Yeah.
- Like, how are you and Chrissy with shared duties or
- I changed diapers, too. - Speaking of duty.
- Yeah, we, (audience applauding)
(Drew and John laughing)
we both, we both change diapers.
I, I, I even did a, a campaign
a few years ago with Pampers,
Daddy diaper duty campaign.
And I, I would sing this-
- On behalf of all women,
thank you. - (laughing)
Thank you very much.
- I feel like it's the least we can do, you know,
women have to go through so much to bring life
into the world and breastfeed and all these other things.
The least we can do is change a diaper, honestly. (laughs)
(audience applauding)
- I love you so much (John laughs)
and I really mean it on behalf of all women and moms.
Thank you. (John laughs)
And it's, you know, it is one of those questions
that's normally like reserved also sometimes for women.
- [John] Uh huh.
- You know, in that way of like, how do you do it all?
- [John] Yeah.
- How do you be a husband, a father,
have this profound career?
How, how do you do it?
- Well, you have to find balance.
And I think, you know, it's sometimes it's
it's not always easy.
Sometimes you, work kind of like has its own momentum
and you're like, well I wanna accomplish this
and I want accomplish that.
But then you also need to make time for your family.
And I really try to make time for my family,
spend a lot of time with them.
I drive my kids to school every morning
whenever I'm in town.
And I, I just want to make sure I'm present
for a lot of the milestones for them.
And so, I'm there, but I do work a lot too.
I think it's kind of like a negotiation with yourself.
You're like, well I'm, and when you get a little bit
off balance, then you gotta go shift to the other side.
- Yes, and try and, what is balance?
What is that elusive person that
that thing. (John laughs)
People say balance and it is very
triggering for me - Yeah.
because it's like this concept
that's a little bit different for everybody.
- But I think another thing we have to allow ourselves is
to figure out a way to not let guilt overtake our mind.
(laughs)
- How do we do that? (John laughs)
How do we do that? (audience clapping)
- Because I think, especially as a parent,
there will always be a reason
you could feel guilty.
There will always be more you could have done,
more of this, more of that.
And you can't let guilt just kind of overtake you.
- I gotta tell you.
- Yeah.
- I hope you take this as a compliment.
I'm really afraid you won't, (John laughs)
but you speak like a woman.
- (laughing) (audience clapping)
- Like you are, I hope I-
- That means I'm wise?
- Well, I- - (laughs)
(audience applauding)
- And I think, I feel like it helps me write music too.
It helps me write music because I'm writing not only
from my own perspective,
but how it feels to be in a partnership with someone.
And I think seeing someone else's point of view
and having empathy helps you write songs.
- Well, you also have a family member,
the same family member that I do.
- Okay.
- A, a bearded dragon.
- (laughs and claps)
We do have a bearded dragon, Sebastian.
- Mine's Jeremy.
- (laughs) Now the weird thing about bearded dragons,
is it's hard to tell what sex they are.
So we may have named a girl bearded dragon Sebastian.
- We may, - We don't know.
we don't know what Jeremy is apparent-
- Have you heard any tricks about how you find out?
- I, there is one I found online that you take their tail.
Well, you know what?
And you shine a flashlight underneath
- (laughs)
- and then you can see a prong, that's a girl,
or a nub, that's a boy.
- [John] A prong or a nub.
- But I gotta tell you, it, it doesn't feel that distinct
when you're trying to,
you know, - [John] (laughs)
so, I was wondering, do you ever
serenade Sebastian?
- I've, I've never serenaded Sebastian. (laughs)
- Is there any chance if I brought Jeremy out here
that you would serenade Jeremy?
- Sure. (audience cheering)
(bright upbeat music)