Quotes By Norah Jones

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

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

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.

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

I'm not a very dark person.

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

I'm not a great piano player.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Coffee gives me bad breath.

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.

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 more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

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.'

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 try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

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.