Quotes By Joss Stone

It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises.

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

I just wear what I think looks nice.

For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.

Life is good. Or at least, it's always interesting.

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.

There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.

I never pay a fortune for clothes.

I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

Who says soul has only one colour?

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

I only watch TV when I go to hotels.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

I feel so, so lucky. Lucky because of many things.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.