Lionel Richie Quotes

Just when I think it couldn't get any bigger, 'Tuskegee' reaches a new level of success.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

I am a country boy and proud of it.

People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.

I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

Simplicity is the key to what I do.

'Let the music play on' would be my legacy.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

I don't think I'm going to be priest material.

My first love, you're every breath that I take, you're every step I make

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens ... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

Soul is a feeling, not a color,

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.

I'm easy like Sunday morning.

I had a dream. I had an awesome dream.

In my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times.

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.