All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

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

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.

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.

I'm easy like Sunday Morning.

It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.