Top 30 Lionel Richie Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When your past calls, don’t answer. It has nothing new to say.”

— Lionel Richie

2. “I’m easy like Sunday Morning...”

— Lionel Richie

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

— Lionel Richie

4. “Let the music play on would be my legacy.”

— Lionel Richie

5. “My first love, you’re every breath that I take, you’re every step I make.”

— Lionel Richie

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

— Lionel Richie

7. “Today we’ve learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.”

— Lionel Richie

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

— Lionel Richie

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

— Lionel Richie

10. “Simplicity is the key to what I do.”

— Lionel Richie

11. “People, as critical as it looks, we’re OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.”

— Lionel Richie

12. “When will we ever learn, there’s nowhere else we can turn.”

— Lionel Richie

13. “All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.”

— Lionel Richie

14. “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

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

— Lionel Richie

16. “I am a country boy and proud of it.”

— Lionel Richie

17. “I had a dream. I had an awesome dream.”

— Lionel Richie

18. “Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.”

— Lionel Richie

19. “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

20. “Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be but I’m not happy when I try to fake it.”

— Lionel Richie

21. “Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I’m dressed to kill in my own mind. They’ll say to me, ‘Dad, you’re not going out there looking like that are you?’ If that doesn’t kill a star, I don’t know what does!”

— Lionel Richie

22. “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

23. “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

24. “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.”

— Lionel Richie

25. “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

26. “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.”

— Lionel Richie

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

— Lionel Richie

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

— Lionel Richie

29. “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

30. “I don’t think I’m going to be priest material.”

— Lionel Richie

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

— Lionel Richie

32. “Just when I think it couldn’t get any bigger, ‘Tuskegee’ reaches a new level of success.”

— Lionel Richie

33. “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.”

— Lionel Richie