Nicole Richie's Quotes

I know that it's a big struggle with a lot of women to dress up - especially now women have been working - because it can be uncomfortable. So it was important to me with my role to make clothes that are slightly more dressed up but easy to wear.

I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.

I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better.

I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.

I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.

I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.

I feel great, very healthy and alive and really happy that I can remember yesterday and I can remember the day before.

I think that British girls have a very eclectic and unique style.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

But my everyday music is classic rock. It's what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.

I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers.

I definitely wouldn't mind gaining a few more pounds at all.