Quotes By Norah Jones

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

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

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy.

If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

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

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

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

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

Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.

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

I like barbecuing because it's easy.

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

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 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.

Your limitations create your sound.

I'm very American.

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

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.

You would never catch me in a miniskirt.

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

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

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

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 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.