Quotes from Norah Jones

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.

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

I don't want to be singing my diary.

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.

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?

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

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

It's not like once you achieve success, you're done, you know. It's like, still enjoy doing what you're doing, that's the key for me.

I make a good fried chicken.

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

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!

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

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

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.

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.

I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.

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

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 think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

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

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

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

All is fair in love and songwriting.

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