Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

You never know when you're making a memory.

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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.

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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.

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

I didn't have any great job prospects.

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

I want to work and be happy.

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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.

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

I'm so positive.

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

I'm terribly human.

Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones

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