People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time. Joss Stone More Quotes by Joss Stone More Quotes From 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 fairs let-me like-you 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 creating play people I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up. Joss Stone gaps advertising writing 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 sassy nasty I feel so, so lucky. Lucky because of many things. Joss Stone so-lucky lucky feels I just wear what I think looks nice. Joss Stone nice looks thinking 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 lonely white baby I never pay a fortune for clothes. Joss Stone clothes fortune pay It would just be nice if everybody would be nice. Joss Stone being-nice nice would-be I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money. Joss Stone week albums made 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 biggie care years The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own. Joss Stone my-own music-is country 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. Joss Stone writing mean thinking It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look. Joss Stone singers people looks 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 strange different littles 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 fighting littles way If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs. Joss Stone save-a-life doctors song The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed. Joss Stone british has-beens unfair 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 accents paper years People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her. Joss Stone white wish people