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“You never know when you're making a memory

Rickie Lee Jones, from "Young Blood," Ricki Lee Jones (1979)”
― Rickie Lee Jones, The Best of Rickie Lee Jones

“I was born in a halfway house on a one-way street.”
― Rickie Lee Jones

“Many men of 1972 used the new “women’s freedom” as an excuse for brutish behavior.”
― Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

“Some of us are born to live lives on an exaggerated scale. Even as children we have a larger suitcase in which to carry all the things that will one day be on our backs. We are cumbersome, beautiful and ugly, fistfighters and bug savers. We are the living words of poems, we little kids who are abused, and we have cut-out rainbows hidden where only we can make wishes upon them. I mean to say, we have imagination, and maybe mine was always active; while others were shining their Sunday shoes, I was capturing a herd of wild horses in my backyard. I must have seemed very . . . wrong.”
― Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

“Chuck E.'s In Love"

How come he don't come and P.L.P. with me
Down at the meter no more?
And how come he turn off the TV
And hang that sign on the door?
Well, we call, and we call
"How come?", we say
Hey, what could make a boy behave this way, yeah?

Well, he learned all of the lines now
And every time
He don't, uh, stutter when he talks
And it's true, it's true
He sure has acquired
This kind of cool and inspired sort of jazz when he walks
Where's his jacket and his old blue jeans?
If, if this ain't healthy, it is some kinda clean

But that means that Chuck E.'s in love, my, my
Chuck E.'s in love, love, love, love
Chuck E.'s in love, uh-huh
Chuck E.'s in

I don't believe what you're saying to me
This is something that I've got to see
Is he here?
I look in the pool hall
But is he here?
I look in the drugstore
But is he here?
No, he don't come here no more

Well, I tell you what
I saw him
He was sittin' behind us
Down at the Pantages
And whatever it is
That he's got up his sleeve
Well, I hope it isn't contagious

What's her name?
Is that her there?
Oh, Christ, I think he's even combed his hair
And is that her?
Well, then, what's her name?
Oh, it's never gonna be the same
That's not her
I know what's wrong
'Cause Chuck E.'s in love with the little girl singing this song
And don't you know

Chuck E.'s in love, yeah, yeah
Chuck E.'s in love, love, love, love
Chuck E.'s in love, my, my
Chuck E.'s in

Chuck E.'s in love
Chuck E.'s in love
He's in love, love, love with me

Ricki Lee Jones, Ricki Lee Jones (1979)”
― Rickie Lee Jones, The Best of Rickie Lee Jones

“In this torment, my mother learned not to hold onto the things she loved because then no one could take them away from her.”
― Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

“them, the Beatles, and they would remain my true love, musically at least, for the rest of my life.”
― Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour