My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do. – Norah Jones
I genuinely dont feel that anything thats been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and thats the most important thing as far as Im concerned. – Norah Jones
Its true, theres a lot of melancholy in my music. I dont know why, Im not a melancholy person. Ive always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat. – Norah Jones
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin