Norah Jones

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.’

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.

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

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.

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.