Lionel Richie

Well, they hit harder from the other team.

So you've got to practice hard.

Well, the only way to get into the music business, you've got to be on the feel.

practice is not in the equation.

Right.

You got to get out on the field and it's nasty and it's not designed for you to survive.

And I try to say this to the kids on American Idol.

I said, listen, I love you.

You got a great personality, but you better hope like hell you have a sense of humor.

Because if you don't,

This is my character.

If you understand something, I was – and I tell this joke all the time.

I was –

Too small to play football, too short to play basketball.

Baseball was a projectile coming at me at 300 miles an hour.

I'm not standing in front of that thing.

And the only thing I could play was tennis.

So you understand, walking around on a tennis court in the middle of the civil rights movement, you have to develop a sense of humor, otherwise you're going to die.

So I found also, again, it's funny what your father will say to you.

And you wonder, how did he get through all of his life?