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
I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.
I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.
Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.
I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.
I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.
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.
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.
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.
That's been the coolest thing about all this - I get to meet people that I worship!
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.