Quotes By Norah Jones

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.

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 really love things with melody.

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

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 make a good fried chicken.

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

I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

Designers send me clothes I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing.

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.

People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me.

I'm not a very dark person.

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

I'm not a great piano player.

I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn't started until I've had eggs. I'm probably gonna die from high cholesterol!

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

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.

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.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

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.

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.

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

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

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.