Top 32 Quotes by Rickie Lee Jones

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

I want to work and be happy.

I'm terribly human.

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

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

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

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 didn't have any great job prospects.

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