When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

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.

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.

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.