Quotes from Norah Jones

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.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I love slow music.

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

I really love things with melody.

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

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!

Music is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

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

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

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

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.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

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.

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.