Rickie Lee Jones

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

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.