Your mother had all her teeth pulled out because they were hurting her. Your father's anger and depression grew, and he often left for months at a time. How were you able to make sense of this behaviour and keep any semblance of your centre? Well, that event, my mother did, that was after the accident with my brother. So i think she was having a long, long fall. Why she decided to hurt herself? You know, i said that thing about trama having an impact forever. Who knows where that came from?"
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.