M.M. Scott Quotes

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

I'm kind of old-fashioned, so I think the guy should always be the one to call. The girl just answers Or doesn't answer

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans, not just pop fans - everybody's been there. And the production was a little left of center.

In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take.

I'm not a tanning bed person at all, but I'll get a spray tan

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.

The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.

I like to innovate. To me, if it's worth doing something, it's worth doing it well. Do something that's going to demand attention and notice.

Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses.

There's not a person in Virginia won't try to sell you a horse. It's in 'em.

Nothing goes on forever; if one could only remember that.

Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.

[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes.

I'm a really anxious person, so I tend not to keep secrets. I tend not to even want to hear them. It's too nerve-wracking for me to try and keep things from people.

Secrets can be poisonous.

It's always fun to try something new, and to play a new character, and it's fun to play another period.

As your life goes on you should gain a deeper understanding of the world and the people moving through it; but that might be asking too much.

Revenge is a really narrow scope through which to view things. In the same way secrets do, it has this ability to warp everything. But secrets are more inward, and revenge is outward.

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

I don't have a problem with enthusiasm.

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.

The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.

Please, touch me, I pray.

The laws governed people's happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.

Boys don't cry-or at least that's what everybody's supposed to believe.

If money's the god people worship, I'd rather go worship the devil instead.

I didn't know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?

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

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

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

My only job is to be happy. So for everybody that cares about me and is not trying to be all up in a celebrity's business, just know that I'm happy. My son is happy. We enjoy our lives.

I think what irks me is that I feel like women are really being compartmentalized physically, and it's been done so much that now we're doing it to ourselves. I don't like it.

Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'