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.

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

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

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.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.