Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was … - Rickie Lee Jones

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As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc. ," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. "They got you comin' and goin'" has never been truer.

Rickie Lee Jones

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

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