M.M. Scott Quotes

In Philadelphia, you are welcome, and that's The City of Brotherly Love. I think that makes us culturally thick and sound, so you can experience all kinds of cultural authenticity.

People think that lemon is good for the voice, but it dries it out.

That's what I enjoy most about my music, that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

I am more spiritual than religious.

I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it.

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

I just think fashion is about enjoying yourself and being comfortable in your skin and allowing you to be you - all the way live.

I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.

I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss.

There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly.

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.

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

I do want love. Genuine love.

One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.

When you have a cast and crew of people who make it light hearted and crack jokes, and break treats, and understand that we are all in this together. That's a biggest plus that you can have.

I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded.

Every community needs a rec center.

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

There are a lot of difficulties with people trying to conceive.

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.

I need my man to be my homie.

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!

When Jett puts my face in his hands and tells me, 'Mommy you're so pretty' or smells me, it's so wonderful.

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. Own a Picasso was one of those things.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.

'True Blood' excites me. It scares me, but it excites me.

For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.

I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that.

I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

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.

Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.

All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles.

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.

The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

The Lord loves holiness and transparency, and I think that if we are to worship Him properly and lead others to do the same, our day to day lives have to reflect that.