Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

I'm way too hypersensitive.

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

I was an emotional basket case.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

I am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.

If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!

All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.

Emotions are my weakness. It is in my blood. It is very difficult to control.

My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won't get shaken and just all shatter and break.

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

No mat­ter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.

Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.

A man's ego is just as fragile as a woman's heart

I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.