American - Musician | March 30, 1979 -
I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.
Norah Jones
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Coffee gives me bad breath.
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I like to be in control of things.
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I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.
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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.
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For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.
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All is fair in love and songwriting.
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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.
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I like barbecuing because it's easy.
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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.
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You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.
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When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
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