Singer Rickie Lee Jones: ‘10 years ago I lost everything’

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Two-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones talks about her love affair with Tom Waits, losing everything at 57, and how she overcame her stage fright --- via Good Weekend Magazine

in 2019, in a career spanning four decades. Her memoir is“The richest I’ve ever been is not because of the amount of money I had, but the way I felt when I first got it.”We were rather poor, but I never felt poor. I had ballet lessons, tap lessons, I went to modelling classes in my freshman year, I was a swimmer at a private club. My parents never owned a house – they always rented furnished houses – but they were fine.

It didn’t make much! I’m trying to find out about that, to be honest. There are a lot of hits on YouTube. I suspect I haven’t gotten paid as much money as I’m supposed to get paid. Because no, I don’t get any cheques forEarly in your memoir, you write about being 23 years old and romantically involved with fellow musician Tom Waits – a relationship that ended in devastating fashion.

Looking back on it, it’s cinematic. It was an incredible time. I’ve done this all my life: I was overwhelmed by love, and the need to be loved in return. It was unfortunate, in a way, that this great love came at the same time as fantastic success, because my career should have been the focus of my attention. But that’s who we were. So I’m at peace with us – how we were great lovers and that it’s a good story.

Demons? The demon of depression. There are also the demons that lead you to drugs, alcohol, but it’s the same road, isn’t it? The one of no worth, and fear. Angels? The gentle reminders that happen inexplicably. When you’re playing and you become better than you really are. Amazing things happen sometimes on stage.There are so many ways to write a song. The first thing I would say is copy your favourite writers, and copy them so well that you can’t really tell the difference.

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