Rickie Lee Quotes & Sayings

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus. — Rickie Lee Jones

Dancin' in the welfare lines. — Rickie Lee Jones

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live. — Rickie Lee Jones

I didn't have any great job prospects. — 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

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 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

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

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. — Rickie Lee Jones

I'm terribly human. — 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'm so positive. — Rickie Lee Jones

I think poetry is best read to oneself. — Rickie Lee Jones

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff. — Rickie Lee Jones

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart. — Rickie Lee Jones

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

I want to work and be happy. — 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

He loved her, free parts and labor. But she broke down and died. — Rickie Lee Jones

You never know when you're making a memory — 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

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'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels. — Rickie Lee Jones

Who can I turn to? Who can I trust? — 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 think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over. — Rickie Lee Jones

I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man. — John Hodgman

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask? — Rickie Lee Jones

I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician. — Vonda Shepard

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

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish. — Rickie Lee Jones

Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace. — 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

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. — Rickie Lee Jones

We go in and sit on the sofa by the fire to dry out, and she plays her favourite records, lots of Rickie Lee Jones and Led Zeppelin and Donovan and Bob Dylan - even though she was sixteen in 1982, there's definitely something very 1971 about Alice. I watch as she jumps around the room to 'Crosstown Traffic' by Jimi Hendrix, then when she's out of breath and tired of changing records every three minutes she puts a crackly old Ella Fitzgerald LP on, and we lie on the sofa and read our books, and steal glances at each other every now and then, like that bit between Michael York and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, and talk only when we feel like it. — David Nicholls

I've always had an active imagination. — Rickie Lee Jones

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.' — Rickie Lee Jones