Quotes By Norah Jones

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

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

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

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

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 not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

Coffee gives me bad breath.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.

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

I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.

I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.

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 repeat.

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

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

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

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

I like to be in control of things.

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?

Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.