Top 35 Joss Stone Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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 now.”

— Joss Stone

2. “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.”

— Joss Stone

3. “I feel so, so lucky. Lucky because of many things.”

— Joss Stone

4. “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

5. “People say I’m the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.”

— Joss Stone

6. “My family fight, that’s the way it is. We’re not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.”

— Joss Stone

7. “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

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

— Joss Stone

9. “I made my new album ‘Colour Me Free!’ in a week with my own money.”

— Joss Stone

10. “Life is good. Or at least, it’s always interesting.”

— Joss Stone

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

— Joss Stone

12. “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

13. “Who says soul has only one colour?”

— Joss Stone

14. “I never pay a fortune for clothes.”

— Joss Stone

15. “It’s sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.”

— Joss Stone

16. “I’ve got a checklist of things I want – including a Brit, a Grammy, an Oscar and a white poodle. Sometimes it gets lonely, and I want a baby too! I’m ticking things off the list.”

— Joss Stone

17. “The only country that hasn’t liked my music is my own.”

— Joss Stone

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

— Joss Stone

19. “People grow. It’s okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.”

— Joss Stone

20. “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

21. “When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That’s it. That’s the only reason I need, really.”

— Joss Stone

22. “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

23. “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

24. “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

25. “The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn’t it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?”

— Joss Stone

26. “I just wear what I think looks nice.”

— Joss Stone

27. “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

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

— Joss Stone

29. “I’ve had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.”

— Joss Stone

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

— Joss Stone

31. “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

32. “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.”

— Joss Stone

33. “When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.”

— Joss Stone

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

— Joss Stone

35. “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

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

— Joss Stone

37. “I’m supposed to be taking time off. But I’m still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.”

— Joss Stone