When you were a kid, your dad took you to an audition for the loo king show. He was so impressed that he asked his parents if they would take out an insurance policy on him. They said no because it seemed like gangsterism and cost too much money. You turned down i lusted for not only to be on television, but to sing in front of people.
Long a believer in the impossible, Rickie Lee Jones has lived an extraordinary life of song. Here, she reflects on five decades of making music.