Quotes By Norah Jones

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

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

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

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.

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 don't want to be singing my diary.

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

Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.

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

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

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

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

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

I like barbecuing because it's easy.

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

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

Your limitations create your sound.

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.

I'm very American.

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

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

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

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.

You would never catch me in a miniskirt.

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.

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

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.

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.

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