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.

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

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

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.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.