Joss Stone

“I don't like listening to music that isn't real.”

“I only watch TV when I go to hotels.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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'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.”

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

“The musicians one day are going to listen to me.”

“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 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.”

“I just wear what I think looks nice.”

“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 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.”

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