Quotes By Norah Jones

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

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.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

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'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

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 think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.

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

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 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.

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.

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.