Norah Jones
Norah Jones
Norah Jones is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Throughout her career, Jones has won numerous awards and has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade. She has won nine Grammy Awards and was 60th on Billboard magazine's artists of the 2000–2009 decade chart...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJazz Singer
Date of Birth30 March 1979
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.
Your limitations create your sound.
Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.
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.
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.
Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.
For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.
For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.
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 like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.