Joss Stone

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

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

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'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.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

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.

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.

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

Who says soul has only one colour?

Life is good. Or at least, it's always interesting.

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

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.