Lionel Richie

Forget the rural South.

I was struggling with myself, which is what everybody struggles with.

So the answer is, it's not that I made it.

It's who was I struggling with?

And all of us are struggling with ourselves.

That's what made the book, to me, so meaningful because people will walk back to me and go, Lionel, I felt the same way.

Now, you know what that's called in my business?

A hit record.

When you write a song and everybody comes back to you and says, man, I was feeling the same way, you got to hit record.

Well, when you can write in a book vulnerability, where you can write in a book fear, where you can write in a book I'm not sure, I wasn't sure, I was scared, they go, how could you be scared and do all that?

And the answer is step forward.

Step forward.

Scared to death.

We're all scared to death.

Are you kidding me?

You know, we don't know what we're doing from day to day.

It's just we work it out.

But it's not where we, all this confidence and crap.

No, no, no, no.

And as time goes on, you kind of develop a little, okay.