55 Quotes by Rickie Lee Jones

I want to work and be happy.

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

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

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

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

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.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

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.

You never know when you're making a memory.