Norah Jones
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Norah Jones (born March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, and a Grammy Award winner.
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- The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.
- He wasn't done yet.
- On Arif Mardin's death
- I felt like I went to somebody else's birthday party and I ate all their cake. Without anybody else getting a piece. That's how I felt.
- On winning all the awards in every category she was nominated in the Grammys 2003
- 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.
- On her father Ravi Shankar in an interview
[edit] Lyrics
- Something has to make you run
I don't know why I didn't come- "Don't Know Why", Come Away with Me (2002)
- Lonestar
Where are you out tonight?
This feeling I'm trying to fight
It's dark and I think that I would give anything
For you to shine down on me- "Lonestar", Come Away with Me (2002)
- How far you are I just don't know
The distance I'm willing to go
I pick up a stone that I cast to the sky
Hoping for some kind of sign- "Lonestar", Come Away with Me (2002)
- If I were a painter
I would paint my reverie
If that's the only way for you to be with me- "Painter Song", Come Away with Me (2002)
- It never rains when you want it to
You humble me, Lord- "Humble Me", Feels Like Home (2004)
- I can't hold on very long
Forgive me, pretty baby, but I always take the long way home- "The Long Way Home", Feels Like Home (2004)
- I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows
knee high
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- "Come away with me",Come Away With Me (2002)
- I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me- "Come away with me",Come Away With Me (2002)
- I love the things that you've given me
I cherish you my dear country
But sometimes I don't understand the way we play- "My Dear Country",Not Too Late(2007)

