"I just never understood how to express it. But when i hear the harmonica, the room that the reverb creates and the guitar in there's a place, i am transported back to that place in time," she says. "You didn't want to be a girl anger or the beetle's girl friend. You wanted to be a beetle."
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.