Norah Jones

Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.