When you get a jean for a larger girl, you have to have them tailored for you. Tailoring is indeed everything.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.

My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs - lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

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.