Norah Jones

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I’m always going to do that – record and make 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’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.

I wasn’t very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

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

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.

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.