Norah Jones Quotes

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

I'm from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative.

Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you're thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

I've tried writing with music on, but I find it distracting.

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

If I'm spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I'm not feeling it.

Whether for company or isolation or just to make it a pleasurable experience, I have music in my ears all the time. I tend to listen to the same things, so I don't really pay too much attention to it. But it's there, and it's nice, and I do pay more attention to it than I probably should. I think, 'How can I use this music in something?'

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home.