Norah Jones adjusting to all that attention

Published: Tuesday, Aug. 24 2004 12:00 a.m. MDT

Norah Jones says she's finally adjusting to all the attention and all that fame.

Two years after her smash album "Come Away With Me" made her a household name, Jones released "Feels Like Home" and waited for the new wave of hype. Her first album sold 18 million copies and netted eight Grammy Awards. Her latest has sold about 5 million copies.

Everywhere she turned, it seemed, her face was on some magazine cover.

"I'm starting to enjoy it finally," the singer-musician told The Baltimore Sun in Friday's editions. "In the beginning, it was freaky. I'm just a musician, you know, and all of a sudden I'm supposed to be this star."

Jones said she stopped reading articles about herself early on. "People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery," she said. "I'm not at all. I'm very direct."

"Feels Like Home" is "just a reflection of me and the band. The recording is just a slice in time. That's all," Jones said. "I'm anxious to move on. I'm only 25. I want to have fun and play good music."

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