Norah Jones Quotes

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it ha...

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot...

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on r...

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're n...

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get i...

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.