Norah Jones Quotes

I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or an author.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

When I first moved to L.A., I went walking down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and I would tell myself, 'One day, I'm going to have my own star.'

I left home at 21 to go and play for Munich and was immediately able to perform at a high standard. It was totally surreal, and I had no idea where it might lead.

No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.

I always wanted to come into the spotlight. I always had dreams and plans of doing my own thing and creating my own image, so it came a little sooner than I thought it would but this is still something I knew I would be going through and would have to experience.

If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That's why I play. If I made it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

My goal, my aim is to be a superstar, but not in a cheesy way. I want to go to America and do what they do. But better!

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.

I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.

People don't come to New York out of resignation. They come here with a dream. Mine was to be an actress.

All through high school and college, my parents would ask me over and over again, 'What are you going to do with your life? What do you want to be?' Well, in my heart I wanted to be a singer like Bing, but I worried about the reality of that dream. Did I think for one minute that I had the voice to pull it off? Of course not.

When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'

It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind. Maybe it crossed my mind that it would be cool to have a hit record and a career, but that was so out of reach that I don't think I thought about it that much.

Keep doing what you're doing. Don't be afraid of fame.

Yes, you can do it. You can dream about being on the cover of magazines; you can dream about being in a film.

I have always been a person with big aspirations, and I have always been confident I could take my opportunity, but you never know until you are out there.

I realized, statistically, the chances of me getting to the WWE and being very successful were very slim. I always hoped it would happen for me.

I wanted to travel. I wanted hit records. I wanted success. I wanted respect, but not credibility - that's one thing Boyzone never looked for.

A record deal is my dream.