Norah Jones Quotes

Your limitations create your sound.

You know, when you have a father who’s pretty well known but you don’t see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

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.

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.

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.