Norah Jones

“I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.”

“I'm not a very dark person.”

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

“I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.”

“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 wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.”

“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.”

“All is fair in love and songwriting.”

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

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

“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'm very American.”

“Coffee gives me bad breath.”

“I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.”

“The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.”