Rickie Lee Jones People Quotations

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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