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!

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

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.

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.

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

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.