I just think fashion is about enjoying yourself and being comfortable in your skin and allowing you to be you - all the way live. Jill Scott More Quotes by Jill Scott More Quotes From Jill Scott I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight. Jill Scott mother home children Being on set is a hard thing. A lot of people are like, oh, you get to make a movie, and it's all fun. But the reality is, it's a lot of hours. It's a lot of reshoots; it's a lot of waiting. And you can become increasingly agitated by the amount of time that you are waiting. But that's real. Jill Scott real fun people 'True Blood' excites me. It scares me, but it excites me. Jill Scott scare blood There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage. Jill Scott advancement loss thinking When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art. Jill Scott moments reason art When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. Own a Picasso was one of those things. Jill Scott died things-to-do lists When Jett puts my face in his hands and tells me, 'Mommy you're so pretty' or smells me, it's so wonderful. Jill Scott smell faces hands Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost. Jill Scott touching soul people I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy! Jill Scott pain artist thinking There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college. Jill Scott senior teacher art A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment. Jill Scott white sky opportunity Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too. Jill Scott girl men america Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too. Jill Scott fun character night As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show. Jill Scott jewels white america My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry. Jill Scott discreet jewelry enjoy It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me. Jill Scott instruments self song I'd been told that when you first put your feet on African ground, you'll be hit by a feeling of overwhelming understanding, like you've returned home and suddenly belong. Quite frankly, I didn't feel that. Jill Scott understanding feet home I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and Fringe allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life. Jill Scott imagination people thinking I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung. Jill Scott playing-games kids thinking I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza. Jill Scott vocabulary baby son
