Lionel Richie Quotes

When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day.

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

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

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

Simplicity is the key to what I do.

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

I'm easy like Sunday Morning.

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

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

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

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

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

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

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

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

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

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.

The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.

Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.

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.

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