Music Quotes by Rickie Lee Jones

Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?

— Rickie Lee Jones

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

— Rickie Lee Jones

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

— 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

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…

— Rickie Lee Jones

I've always had an active imagination.

— Rickie Lee Jones

Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace.

— Rickie Lee Jones

Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used…

— Rickie Lee Jones

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

— Rickie Lee Jones

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

— Rickie Lee Jones

Dancin' in the welfare lines.

— 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.…

— Rickie Lee Jones