I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

The album released in September 1991 was a hit on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums (#8 1991) but became her least commercially successful record yet reaching #121 on the Billboard 200. Rickie Lee was the third of four children and was born in Chicago in 1954. She began to pursue jazz standards recording "The Moon Is Made of Gold" which was written by her father and "Autumn Leaves" for Rob Wasserman's album Duets in 1985.

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In 1999 Jones was listed at #30 in the VH1 list of 100 greatest women of rock. Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8 1954) is an American vocalist musician songwriter and producer.