When you tried out for the school choir, you were turned down. The music teacher stated that your voice was too unusual and would not fit into his chorus head. A teacher's like that even exist. They're just kind of people that are about everything being the same. You know, they could have been so much gentler with me. It's a miracle that anyboy who's a little bit different ever achieves anything that they're meant to achieve.
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.