Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

You never know when you're making a memory.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

I want to work and be happy.

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?

I've always had an active imagination.

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

Dancin' in the welfare lines.