I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

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

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

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

People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.