Lionel Richie: My own songs saved me from depression

TODAY - Many people have turned to music at sad times in their lives. Singer Lionel Richie is no different -- except the music he turned to was his own.

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Jul 1, 2013

TODAY – Many people have turned to music at sad times in their lives. Singer Lionel Richie is no different — except the music he turned to was his own.

Richie told the U.K. Mirror that in the 1990s, he was going through a divorce and fighting depression

“Then a friend said to me: ‘Lionel, I have some inspirational tapes I want you to listen to,'” Richie recalled to the newspaper. “He handed me my own songs with certain ones underlined and I started listening to my lyrics – this time from the point of view of someone who needed that message.

“I used to look out into the audience and wonder why that guy was crying to one of my songs and now I get it -– it just hits something in your core,” Richie said.

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