Quotes By Norah Jones

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 like to be in control of things.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!