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.
Norah JonesIf I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.
Norah JonesIt's not like once you achieve success, you're done, you know. It's like, still enjoy doing what you're doing, that's the key for me.
Norah JonesI'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
Norah JonesIn 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.
Norah JonesPeople think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.
Norah JonesIt's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.
Norah JonesI 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.
Norah JonesI 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.
Norah JonesI 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.
Norah JonesMusic is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.
Norah JonesI feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.
Norah JonesSometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
Norah JonesWhat 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.
Norah JonesIt'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.
Norah JonesI don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.
Norah JonesGod bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.
Norah JonesOn 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.
Norah JonesThe coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.
Norah JonesI had success early on where I'm able to try to keep it fun, and I don't have to do things just for the sake of making a living, which a lot of my musician friends don't have that luxury of course.
Norah JonesI 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.
Norah JonesSongs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.
Norah JonesIf you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.
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