Lionel Richie
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Podcast Appearances
And the answer is, no, they're not.
Everybody has a front and a back.
Especially a public narrative.
If you don't know them personally.
If you don't know them personally.
And so with me, I have found the greatest parts in the world of this whole story is that they come as fans, everybody.
And that's the part that really makes me feel really great about traveling around the world.
Because it gives โ remember now, I know the world of the world.
A lot of people know Detroit or they know America, but they don't know Europe or they don't know Asia or they โ Joe, I'm 200 years old.
I scratched on everything.
But the point is, when I come home to write a song, I don't write a song based on is it going to be a song that can identify to America only.
I write a song that the world will understand.
Because you've been to the world.
I've been to the world.
So when I came home to write All Night Long, everybody looked at me like, you're out of your freaking mind.
It's freaking Calypso.
There ain't no Calypso music on the radio.
I said, there's a thing called world beat.
That's why every gangster, every politician, every school teacher, everybody, when you go on vacation, what do you hear?