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" When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through. "

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" 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. "

Norah Jones

Life

Best

Best Friend

" I'm not a great piano player. "

" 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. "

Norah Jones

Good

Good Song

" I like to be in control of things. "

Norah Jones

Control

Things

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

" 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. "

" I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a very dark person. "

" God 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. "

" I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety. "

" I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it. "

Norah Jones

Out

Avoid

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

" I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree. "

Norah Jones

Feel

Lucky

" I love slow music. "

" I'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. "

" I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy. "

Norah Jones

Sometimes

Well

" I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do. "

" I hope there are some audiophiles still out there. "

" I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

Norah Jones

Far

Genetically

" I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I really love things with melody. "

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

Norah Jones

Fun

Doing