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. Lionel Richie More Quotes by Lionel Richie More Quotes From Lionel Richie 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. Lionel Richie i-love-you passion jobs Soul is a feeling, not a color. Lionel Richie color soul feelings Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it. Lionel Richie greatness fighting home When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say. Lionel Richie nothing-new answers past Simplicity is the key to what I do. Lionel Richie simplicity keys No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love. Lionel Richie endless-love romantic giving 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. Lionel Richie gas-stations fame people Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists. Lionel Richie mediocrity creative artist I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home. Lionel Richie loses going-out home I'm easy like Sunday Morning. Lionel Richie sunday-morning sunday morning 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. Lionel Richie pain song world Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough. Lionel Richie enough forget years Let the music play on would be my legacy. Lionel Richie legacy would-be play I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box. Lionel Richie boxes challenges want 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. Lionel Richie music fun love My first love, you're every breath that I take, you're every step I make Lionel Richie first-love love-you firsts Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers. Lionel Richie storyteller country 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. Lionel Richie siege want people All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes. Lionel Richie egotistical inferiority artist Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there. Lionel Richie parent struggle years
