Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing.

After her departure from Melrose Place Simpson reprised her role in the Broadway musical production of Chicago. Geffen Records chairman Ron Fair said in December 2006 that working on Simpson's next album would be "very tricky" because of press scrutiny and "prejudices" but that Geffen would work with her to overcome that "because Ashlee Simpson deserves to be heard and Ashlee Simpson deserves a shot. In a September 2007 interview her father Joe Simpson said of the surgery: "There was a real problem with her breathing and that was cured".

The album was released after the show's first season and went to the top of the album chart. Ashlee Nicole Simpson (born October 3 1984) is an American singer-songwriter and actress.