Lionel Richie

No one would touch us.

No one.

I don't know.

It has to be a sense of divine guidance.

or Big Frank Lucas just told everybody, don't touch us.

One or the other, but I mean, it was just one of those moments in time where, you know, I've had some people say to me, you were in Harlem at four o'clock in the morning in the subway alone?

I said, yeah.

With a saxophone.

With a saxophone.

God bless you, kid.

I'm glad I'm doing the book now because otherwise I would be, let's say, when I got to about 98, 99, because I'm planning on a full life.

There's an old man at the barbershop still telling lies about his life when he was growing up because it has to be a lie.

There was one title I was joking around with, which is, you're not going to believe this shit.

That would be the title, you know, and I was thinking that might be the way to go.

And then, of course, I kept thinking, no, but from a philosophical point of view, that's not going to fly.

Right.

Okay, we'll pull that back.

But the point is, it's almost not believable.

I mean, when you start calling off names, it's almost like name dropping.

And you start thinking about who mentored you, who gave you the advice, right?