Author: Norah Jones

I try to just make music that I love and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

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.

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!

I just want to make my music and I want it to stand on its own.

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 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 love slow music.

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'm always going to do that – record and make music.

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.'

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.

For me making music is part social part interaction part collaboration.