It took so long, so many weeks of practice and memory and getting the fingers. And then finally i could make that beautiful motion, walking down from the sea to the a minor. When you're making music, it's like your weaving reality. You're weaving places. You're bringing, it's magic, and bringing these feelings into existence out here before you. Oh, my god. I had longed to do it, and i was doing it, and that's all i can say about that. Ha, it was pretty wonderful.
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.