Lionel Richie
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Forget that guy in New York.
I mean, forget that guy.
Now, whoever that guy was, the gift was handed to me.
And now I spent the next two or three weeks trying to convince Mr. Clark that I don't have any training in how to be a host.
And that's when he would come to me and say, ah, you schoolboys are all the same.
You think you need a diploma before you think you know something.
You know, these lines that come out of this whole story, you know, that's not orchestrated.
It came from the other side back this way.
The word I'll use is blessed.
It's one of those things where my grandmother said something to me a while back.
I just finished Endless Love, and I went back to Tuskegee.
And I'm walking around in the house pacing back and forth.
She says, what on earth are you doing?
And I said, I'm trying to figure out my next move.
And she said, did you come to school to join the Commodores?
She said, no, no, I met them on the campus.