Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jonesis an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer. Over the course of a career that spans five decades, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CountryUnited States of America
imaginary maintain needed people reasons spent
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.
christ guy rid
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?
reading growing rebirth
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.
unanswered-questions turns
Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?
dancing lines welfare
Dancin' in the welfare lines.
stills asks
I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?
imagination active
I've always had an active imagination.
people my-family
My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.
emotional levels destroyed
I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.
people santa use
For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.
people singing jazz
I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.
musician accomplished accomplish
As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
thinking poetry-is oneself
I think poetry is best read to oneself.
thinking america democracy
I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.