72 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

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.

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

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.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.