Norah Jones

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

I like barbecuing because it's easy.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

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.

I like to be in control of things.

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'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.