The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.'

'Let the music play on' would be my legacy.

I’m a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

I had a dream. I had an awesome dream.

Just when I think it couldn’t get any bigger, ‘Tuskegee’ reaches a new level of success.

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don’t want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they’re not having a great time of life.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn’t die, it just moved to Nashville.

I just like people. I’ll hold a conversation at a gas station. It’s not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

I don’t think I’m going to be priest material.

Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I’m dressed to kill in my own mind. They’ll say to me, ‘Dad, you’re not going out there looking like that are you?’ If that doesn’t kill a star, I don’t know what does!