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

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

I don't think I'm going to be priest material.

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

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

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.