Quotes By Joss Stone

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.

People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

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.

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

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.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I never pay a fortune for clothes.

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.

If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.