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Jill Scott
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Jill
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Who is Jill Scott? Is she Erykah Badu? No. No. No. She is Jill Scott. Phatmag interupted Jill on her busy European promotional tour and conducted a telephone interview whilst in Amsterdam
Phatmag:
Who is Jill Scott?
Well
the simple part - I'm a woman, I'm black, I'm from America. I'm a daughter
and a niece, an aunt and a cousin, a mother and all those things. The
more complicated - an artist. Emotional and spiritual but you know,
there's more that I don't know about yet. I'm only 28 and I'm learning
as I create
Phatmag:
So you're 28. Still young. Still very young. When you were writing the
album, did you sit down and say I'm writing for the album or were there
a collection of songs that you wrote in time, that you compiled together
for the album
I
worked on the album for about 2 years - creating maybe 50 songs. Basically
what we did was that we kept pushing. We kept playing music and listening
to music and creating a new song. It wasn't really that this is going
to go on the album and this isn't. We just kept creating 'cos we had about
50 songs... maybe it was 48 or so, then we decided 'I think we need to
slow down' and pick some songs for this album. We just kept moving. We
didn't think about 'album'
Phatmag:
So did you have poetry that you put to music or was there music given
to you for you to write over....how did the whole writing and creative
process work for you?
Yeah I
got music from the producers and then if it moved me, then I would write.
Some of the poetry that was written was for many, many years before I
actually thought about doing an album. You know those pieces, like Love
Rain and Exclusively....
Phatmag:
So what inspires you to write?
Life.
It's the trees, the water, the way the rain falls and the lake. You know,
it's all that's going on in front of us, around us, above us, under us.
Just paying attention to what's happening whether it's political or emotional,
spiritual. You know, social economical. Whatever it maybe - just paying
attention to life
