Reading your book illuminated so much of your music in a completely different way, because you have been so private. So much of what you wrote about i didn't know. And i was sort of astounded by the the history that you bring to your music and it sort of helps augment the music in acompletely different way. You've said that heroine was like a carnaval ride. You couldn't exit until the ride was over. And one day you knew it was time to get off the ride. How did you kick the habit? Because you didn't go to rehab. But it really was one day at a time, one step at a time. We made it here. We made
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.