You've been sober for decades now, and rigt how months go by. How do you make sense of it? I think that we do it with women in all things. We assign a moral code to them at that we don't hold men to. And it's sad, because that dubiousness is creating careers. You know, it's very hard now to have a career if you won't shell yourself sexually. So that's a little discouraging.
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.