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.

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

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

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

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

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

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

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.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

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

I've always had an active imagination.

You never know when you're making a memory.

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

I want to work and be happy.

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.

The only angel who sees us now watches through each others eyes

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

Dancin' in the welfare lines.

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

I didn't have any great job prospects.

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.

I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk down the street. You know? Because that's the best thing about when you're happy. It's just one little thing that makes you happy, and you're making friends. The kind of thing I can do is capture this moment.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

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'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.

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

Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace.

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 in and try even harder to combine the two.

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

Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?