Norah Jones

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

“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.”

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

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

“Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.”

“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 hope there are some audiophiles still out there.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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 just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.”

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

“I love slow 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.”