288 Quotes by Jill Scott

A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can’t live like that.

For me, hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It’s an accessory.

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.

I’ve been around the world and I’ve had bras made in different places, and each time I’m experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.

There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren’t any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there’s hope.

If you can’t help me grow, there’s no point with you being in my life.

I’d love to work with Missy Elliott. I’d love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I’d love, love, love to work with Barbra Streisand. I’m reaching, because why not? You don’t know what’s going to happen in this life.

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.

Music shouldn’t be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.