My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

Personal life
Jones was in a long-term relationship with the bassist Lee Alexander from 2000 until their breakup in December 2007. She gave a ride to a band playing at the university whose members happened to be friends of Harris. "Baby It's Cold Outside" a duet with Willie Nelson was nominated in the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals category.

She is also Anoushka Shankar's half-sister. Her subsequent studio albums Feels Like Home released in 2004 Not Too Late released in 2007 the same year Norah Jones made her film debut in My Blueberry Nights and her 2009 release The Fall all gained Platinum status selling over a million copies and were generally well received by critics. Jones has won nine Grammy Awards and was 60th on Billboard magazine's artists of the 2000–2009 decade chart.