Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

My first love, you're every breath that I take, you're every step I make

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.