Jill Scott Quotes

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'

I can't write songs unless I am in love.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.

I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put something together.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.

I fell in love with singing, and through singing, I learned how to write songs. Anything you're consistent with and that you do all the time, you're gonna reap benefits off it at one point. You're not gonna get worse!

There's just a certain amount of grandeur and total squalor we exist in as songwriters because it's a crazy job for crazy people.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.