Rickie Lee Jones

I want to work and be happy.

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

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

I didn't have any great job prospects.

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

I'm terribly human.

I'm so positive.

You never know when you're making a memory.

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.

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.'

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

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

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

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

I've always had an active imagination.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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