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How we doing? Good.
We're rolling. Pleasure to meet you, sir. It's about time. Thank you very much for being here. This is an honor. Same here, man. Same here. How does a person like you... fit your life into a book because your career is so wide and so long. You've had so many experiences from the Commodores in the 70s. The 70s, still rocking. 70s.
70s. So, Joe, let me tell you something. It really accounts for, I'll tell you the joke of the book first. I'm probably the only guy in the world that had a book with probably a thousand pages in it. I turned a thousand pages in and they said, what the hell is this? War and peace. War and peace. And I said, and I've got some more stories. I've got some more stories.
And so for the first time in the history of Harper's, probably they said, Mr. Ritchie, no more stories. We don't need any more stories. In fact, can we take some of the stories out?
Oh, no.
So to answer your question, we can't fit all of my life story in a book. But we just had to find the ones that were actually humorous in certain cases, educational in certain cases, because it's wide. It's big. But I enjoyed the process. Of kind of looking back. Because if you understand me, I have the Italian race car driver's theory. What's behind me doesn't count.
What's in front of me. That's a very good way of looking at life.
So what this book made me do was actually turn around and look behind me. And I tell you what I discovered. I discovered Lionel Richie. Because up to this point, I had never really gone into the depths of how I got here. I just remember, because you want to forget. You just kept going. Just kept going. Keep going straight. You tripped over that. I don't remember. You tripped over that.
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