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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Rickie Lee Jones

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

— Rickie Lee Jones

“You never know when you're making a memory Rickie Lee Jones, from "Young Blood," Ricki Lee Jones (1979)”

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I'm so positive.

— 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…

— 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…

— Rickie Lee Jones

I'm terribly human.

— Rickie Lee Jones

“I was born in a halfway house on a one-way street.”

— Rickie Lee Jones

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

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I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a…

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

— Rickie Lee Jones

You never know when you're making a memory.

— 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…

— Rickie Lee Jones

He loved her, free parts and labor. But she broke down and died.

— Rickie Lee Jones