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" 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

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" I think poetry is best read to oneself. "

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" I want to work and be happy. "

" Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff. "

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" There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best. "

" I didn't have any great job prospects. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm terribly human. "

Rickie Lee Jones

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" 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? "

" I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask? "

" 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. "

" You never know when you're making a memory. "

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

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

" My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home. "

" 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. "

" I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.' "

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

" 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

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Words

" 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.' "

" 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. "