You were expelled from high school because you refused to take off your hat. The teacher also was very cruel to you and told you that you were an undesirable element at the school. Did he ever apologize to you when he realized what you did with your life? It's not just me. He kicked out 11 other hippies that year. Some of those kids were just long haired kids. They didn't smoke pot. They were really good students. No, he didn't apologize to anybody. Shame on this is shame on him indeed.
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.