Quotes from Norah Jones

Your limitations create your sound.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

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

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.

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

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

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

I'm very American.

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

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!

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

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