Best of Design Matters: Rickie Lee Jones
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
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🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:08.0 | This archival episode of Design Matters originally came out in October of 2021. |
| 0:13.0 | I didn't know people were lounged for justice, I never heard of that. |
| 0:17.0 | So it's defiance against my parents and all the people that were looking at me. |
| 0:21.0 | And that defiance made me feel good. |
| 0:26.0 | That's the key in me, I guess. I need a little defiance. |
| 0:34.0 | From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman. |
| 0:41.0 | For 17 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do, |
| 0:46.0 | how they got to be who they are and what they're thinking about and working on. |
| 0:51.0 | On this episode, the one and only Ricky Lee Jones. |
| 0:56.0 | There's no difference between my life and my career and my career and my life. |
| 1:02.0 | They're all mixed up together. |
| 1:09.0 | Ricky Lee Jones spent her early life drifting to and fro, |
| 1:12.0 | lending wherever good luck and intuition seemed to guide her. |
| 1:16.0 | In the mid 1970s, that place was Los Angeles. |
| 1:20.0 | It was there that she would write the hit single Chuck Eason Love. |
| 1:25.0 | In 1979, her debut album sold over 2 million copies and she went on in her career to win two Grammys |
| 1:33.0 | and to claim her spot as one of the greatest singer-songwriters in American popular music. |
| 1:39.0 | She joins me now to discuss her journey, her career, and her newly released memoir. |
| 1:45.0 | Ricky Lee Jones, welcome to Design Matters. |
| 1:48.0 | Hi, good to be here. |
| 1:51.0 | Ricky, congratulations on your memoir. |
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