3 December 2020 Norah Jones 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.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones 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.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones 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.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones 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.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that’s all that matters.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably ’cause I missed something about Texas.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones I wasn’t very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones I could do without ‘cool’ publications calling me ‘mom jazz.’ But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones 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!
3 December 2020 Norah Jones I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don’t want to do the same thing all the time.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones 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.’
3 December 2020 Norah Jones Sometimes when you’re trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones 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.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones 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.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones 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.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones 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.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones 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.
