Quotes from Rickie Lee Jones

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

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

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.

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 think poetry is best read to oneself.

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

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

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.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

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

I've always had an active imagination.

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.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

I'm so positive.

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

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

them, the Beatles, and they would remain my true love, musically at least, for the rest of my life.

In this torment, my mother learned not to hold onto the things she loved because then no one could take them away from her.

Many men of 1972 used the new "women's freedom" as an excuse for brutish behavior.

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 to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?

I didn't have any great job prospects.

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

I'm terribly human.

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.