Last Chance Texaco Quotes

“them, the Beatles, and they would remain my true love, musically at least, for the rest of my life.”
― Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

“Many men of 1972 used the new “women’s freedom” as an excuse for brutish behavior.”
― Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

“Some of us are born to live lives on an exaggerated scale. Even as children we have a larger suitcase in which to carry all the things that will one day be on our backs. We are cumbersome, beautiful and ugly, fistfighters and bug savers. We are the living words of poems, we little kids who are abused, and we have cut-out rainbows hidden where only we can make wishes upon them. I mean to say, we have imagination, and maybe mine was always active; while others were shining their Sunday shoes, I was capturing a herd of wild horses in my backyard. I must have seemed very . . . wrong.”
― Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

“In this torment, my mother learned not to hold onto the things she loved because then no one could take them away from her.”
― Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour