Quotes By Norah Jones

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

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

I like barbecuing because it's easy.

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.

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

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

Your limitations create your sound.

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 happens.

I'm very American.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

You would never catch me in a miniskirt.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.

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 it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

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.

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

I really love things with melody.

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

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

I make a good fried chicken.