Norah Jones Quotes

All is fair in love and songwriting.

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

Your limitations create your sound.

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

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

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

I like barbecuing because it's easy.

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 just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

I like to be in control of things.

My heart is drenched in wine.
You'll be on my mind.
Forever

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

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.

People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

Coffee gives me bad breath.

I make a good fried chicken.

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

It's hard for me to pry with people I know.

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

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

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'm not a great piano player.

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

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

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

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

You would never catch me in a miniskirt.

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

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

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

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

I don't want to be singing my diary.

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

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

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.'

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

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

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

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

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

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.

I really love things with melody.

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

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

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

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.

I love slow music.

I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.

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

Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

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.

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

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'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

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

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

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

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

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

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.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

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 don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.

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

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

I'm very American.

I'm not a very dark person.

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

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

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.

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.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

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!