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
The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.
I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.
I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.
I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.
One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.
I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.
I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.
A woman is more than the sum of her parts.
I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.
To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.
I like a man who smells good. Puts on cologne; lotions his body. It keeps me wanting. I like feeling that way.
In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.