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" 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

World

People

Escape

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Human

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Respected

Still

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

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

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" 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

Singing

People

" 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

Places

Words

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

Rickie Lee Jones

Your

Political

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

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