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

- 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

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

- Rickie Lee Jones

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

- Rickie Lee Jones

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

- Rickie Lee Jones

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

- 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

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