Norah Jones

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

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

“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'm not a great piano player.”

“People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

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

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

“I love slow music.”

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

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