"Heroin is talking to the part of the brain that doesn't feel safe and doesn't feel pleasure," she says. "It fills that up with safety and pleasure in a half sleep state where you can write anything and bebe walking in a dream and talking" After years on drug, place begins to recede - 'you don't have anything here to root into' She relapses but manages to get over it one day at a time by identifying triggers.
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.