Rickie Lee Jones

“There was one here that's a staple of mine I watch often called My Man Godfrey. I love William Powell. For a long time I thought, that's a guy I'd like to marry. Just a quiet, well-mannered, neat man who drinks himself to sleep.”

“Hedwig. Now John Cameron Mitchell and I are friends. We live just down the street from each other in New Orleans. And he had given me this, his film, not too long after he made it. And I was in kind of a bad personal space and it took me a while to see it. And when I saw it, I think I've seen one of the most important performances of the new century. He is so good, and I like his wig.”

“The Blob. My big sister and her boyfriend would see this at the drive-in Phoenix, 1960 maybe, and I was in the front or back seat, and I was scarred forever by the music, which was a Burt Bacharach song. And, and the beginning is spinny, it like a, you know, the thing going like that and just turning around and it's like, be careful of The Blob, kind of rock and roll thing. But I haven't seen it since then, my little kid mind: careful of The Blob! But they figured out how to stop it. I'm not going to tell you the ending, but don't you let your little kid see it, even though you think it's not sophisticated anymore, it is way too scary for those kids.”

“A Taste of Honey. It's a story of a teenage girl whose mother is kind of a teenager as well. She meets a, a gay boy who moves in with her and he's going to take care of her, be her friend. And he makes her horrible room beautiful, puts up pictures and curtains and makes her tea and scones. She's an outsider, truly, in the world that he lives in. And then that horrible mother comes back, and it's just a glance between them. She walks in and looks at him and he knows his time's up. And they sing this song: "Oh, the good ship sails on the alley-alley-o, on the alley-alley-o." I was, I still walk around singing that. A kind of children's song, but what it really means is you don't have a chance.”

“I'd like to get a Denzel because he's one of, if not my favorite actor. So, so this is Devil in a Blue Dress, based on the Walter Mosley character Easy Rawlins. Very good book, great film.”

“This is The Complete Monterey Pop Festival, where Janis, wearing her little mules and going like that. She is so cool, though. So I imitated everything she did, from her clothes to her high heels. This is worth listening to the performances and remembering who we were.”