I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.
— Norah Jones
I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.
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 a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.
I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.
I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.
I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.
I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn't started until I've had eggs. I'm probably gonna die from high cholesterol!
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 don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.
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 would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.
I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.
I don't want to be singing my diary.
I'm not a very dark person.
I'm always going to do that - record and make music.
I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'
I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.
I'm very American.
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 hope there are some audiophiles still out there.
I really love things with melody.
I'm not a great piano player.
My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.
I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
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.
Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.
It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.
Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.
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 love slow music.
I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.
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.
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.
I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.
I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.
Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.
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!
Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.
A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.
People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me.
I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.
I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.
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.
Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
