Norah Jones

“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....”

“Coffee gives me bad breath.”

“I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.”

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

“The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.”

“I'm not a great piano player.”

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

“A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.”

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

“For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.”