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. – Joss Stone
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? – Joss Stone
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. – Joss Stone
I’m supposed to be taking time off. But I’m still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up. – Joss Stone
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. – 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. – Joss Stone
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. – Joss Stone
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. – Joss Stone
If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It’s not supposed to be like that. – Joss Stone
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. – Joss Stone
People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I’m expressing now is for the first time. – 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. – Joss Stone
Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak. – Joss Stone
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. – Joss Stone
