Quotes by Norah Jones

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

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

"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!"

"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 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 love slow music."

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

"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.'"

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

"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."

"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."

"A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music."

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

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

"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."

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