Joss Stone
To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.Collection: Freedom
It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.Collection: Sad
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.
I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.
People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.
Who says soul has only one colour?
I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.
For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.
Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.
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 made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.
If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.
People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.
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.
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.
The musicians one day are going to listen to me.
I only watch TV when I go to hotels.
It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.
The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.
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?
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'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 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.
I feel so, so lucky. Lucky because of many things.
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.
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.
People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.
I don't like listening to music that isn't real.
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've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.
I just wear what I think looks nice.
Life is good. Or at least, it's always interesting.
I never pay a fortune for clothes.
People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.
There's always a silver lining to every cloud and everything has to happen for a reason and if everything's really challenging, then you can make it into a positive.Collection: Clouds
It would just be nice if everybody would be nice.Collection: Nice
If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.Collection: Song
There is a silver lining to every cloud and there's some awesome songs that have come from some really like bad experiences, but they're great experiences 'cause then I've got some good songs so it's all good for me.Collection: Song
I'm just very much in love with love. I have this fairy-tale idea of what love should be, and I want it to be magical. I want everything in my life to be magical, actually. If you ever come to my house, you'll see what I mean. I've made it like a fairyland. Flowers and hearts everywhere, and there's colors and little gems hanging from the windows. I just like things to be magical if they can be, and in love there's your opportunity. I think that's how it should be, and if it's not like that, then, "Nah. Don't want it".Collection: Flower
I always try to write about something that's actually happened or it doesn't always have to have happened to me, but it has to have happened at some point. So every single lyric that you hear comes from some kind of story that I've come across in my life. I like to think that that maybe helps me mean it a bit more and if you don't mean it, it ceases to be soul music.Collection: Writing
I would never want something I'm wearing or the way I'm dancing or something to overshadow what I'm doing. I'd rather grab people's attention with my voice.Collection: Voice
When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.Collection: Opportunity
It's ok to be sassy, but I'll never be trashy, it's ok to be nasty, but you got to keep it classy nowCollection: Sassy
The fact is when I get pissed off about something or something awful has happened, I just say, 'You know what? Thank you very much. Thank you for the lyrics. Because that is exactly what you just gave me.' There's no real negative then. So if something happens, I don't cry about it. I just find myself a pen and I figure it out.Collection: Real
The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own.Collection: Country
When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.Collection: Want
The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to not do what they were told and then the music suffers because of that dynamic and now there's the power of the download.Collection: Artist
I feel like I'm a quick learner and I'm also very quick to forget. That's why I can't play an instrument because I can't bloody remember it.Collection: Play
I like to dip in and out of all sorts of different things. God, if I was asked to be in a show, like a real show, I would be so up for doing that.Collection: Real
Love #music. It will #love you back.Collection: Love You