Quotes By Norah Jones

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

I like to be in control of things.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

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.

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.

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 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.

I love slow music.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.