Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

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

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

- 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

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

- Rickie Lee Jones

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

- Rickie Lee Jones

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

- Rickie Lee Jones

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

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

- 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

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

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

- Rickie Lee Jones

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.'

- Rickie Lee Jones

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

- Rickie Lee Jones

I didn't have any great job prospects.

- Rickie Lee Jones

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

- Rickie Lee Jones

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Rickie Lee Jones

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

- Rickie Lee Jones

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.

- Rickie Lee Jones

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

- 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

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

- Rickie Lee Jones

I've always had an active imagination.

- Rickie Lee Jones

I want to work and be happy.

- Rickie Lee Jones

I'm terribly human.

- Rickie Lee Jones

You never know when you're making a memory.

- Rickie Lee Jones

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

- Rickie Lee Jones