Lionel Richie

Remember, it's all texture, it's all sounds, it's all about sonics.

I started off probably about the first five years, six years on a grand piano.

Got it?

Then after probably Penny Lover,

probably after that, never played that again, grand piano, because technology came in and you can get sounds on the keyboard.

So from that point on, I never played the same keyboard twice.

all night long do you remember like were you standing in the kitchen and you were like you know getting a glass of milk or you know what I mean yeah it's so many stories about I'll use I'll use probably all night long I'll use Hello as a perfect example yeah great song you know I wrote again my co-producer James Carmichael was late for the

for the little writing session we were having, and he walks in the door, and I'm just playing on the piano, and I said, hello, is it me you're looking for?

And I played the chords.

No way.

And I was waiting for him to say, yeah, I'm here.

Okay, let's get started.

He said, finish that song.

Which is the corniest thing I could ever think about in life.

Oh, my God.

It's so great, though.

So if you really want to know the backstory of this, which I will tell you, the backstory to this is I didn't like it.

I hated it.

Wow.

And he kept saying, finish it, finish it.