Jill Scott
Jill Scott
Jill Scott is an American singer-songwriter, model, poet and actress. Her 2000 debut, Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1, went platinum, and the follow-ups Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2and The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3both achieved gold status. She made her cinematic debut in the films Hounddog and Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? in 2007. After a four year hiatus from music, Scott released her fourth album, The Light of the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth4 April 1972
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and sometimes I need to be a Catholic and need to purge my sins and confess. It just depends on where I am.
'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.
When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.
Sometimes, for principle, your gonna have to kick some ass.
One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.
Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.
I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.
I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was the first person ever to make a formal apology to black people for slavery, which was very warm and appreciated. But African-Americans haven't healed at all . The wound is still very open. And seeing the differences in how people live, it just puts salt in it- constantly . Seeing the way we're treated within these United States ... it burns you even more every day.
I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that`s it.
I'm looking for someone who works as hard as I do. Who loves their work as much as I do, so at the end of the night we have something real to talk about, something exciting that makes our blood flow and boil.
That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.
When you get a jean for a larger girl, you have to have them tailored for you. Tailoring is indeed everything.
I need my man to be my homie.
The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.