“Yes, it did – it’s in the book, isn’t it?!” It isn’t a bark but it’s close to it. That was an amazing year, she continues, “when I was homeless, a guy had left me, I met that pimp, and I got a job through the unemployment office or maybe I went door-to-door – I don’t remember any more. Anyway, whatever he was doing in that room with the boxes I’ll never know, but I was just supposed to sit in the front office and type up these labels.
The 1980s were uneven: moving to Paris, a four-year break from recording, and then two Grammy awards – in 1989 and 1990 . From then to now, her career has been fitful but very much, she admits proudly, of her own making. “I’m an odd girl,” she adds with a grin and a show of hands. “Every time I step on stage, I can’t do what I did the night before. I think that disappointed some record company people, and I know they would say in the back of their minds, after I ignored their career guidance, ‘Well, Rickie, what happened?’ The truth is that nothing happened. What occurred instead was a concerted and controlled effort to have a career in which I could do anything I wanted for all of my life and to pay the rent.
Music is what she is made of, she intimates, and the sustainment of her extraordinary if erratic career continues because of her commitment to that, and not to any music industry notions. “It’s my nature to be outside, it really is,” she accepts. She says she doesn’t care about her age , and thinks that artists and singers should continue with the work – the writing, recording, singing, touring and TV shows – for as long as they can.
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