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
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.
I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all.
A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.
Come away with in the night Come away with me And I will sing you a song Come away with me on a bus Come away where they can't tempt us With there lies I want to walk with you On a cloudy day In fields where the yellow grass grows Knee-high So won't you try to come Come away with me and we'll kiss On a mountain top Come away with me And I'll never stop loving you And I want to wake up with the rain Falling on a tin roof While I'm safe there in your arms So all I ask is for you To come away with me in the night Come away with me.
I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.
Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.
Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.
Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.
All is fair in love and songwriting.
You gotta remember, I'm 24 years old. Who knows if I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing? But yeah, I'd like to rock out some day!
I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.
People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me.
I just do the same stuff I always did. I have a bigger apartment - that's the main change.