That is one of the fantastic things about spending time with elders they have a plethora of good stories and good music to share. He's been collecting records his entire life, and he's pretty diligent about it. Does he have even more records than (Roots drummer and 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' musical director) Questlove? You mentioned a moment ago what a large record collection Rudy has. Q: Well, that's a really nice feather in your cap. It's so exciting, I have to sing it!' She's going to do my version. She said: 'Darling, you hit the nail on the head with ('You Don't Know About Love'). Ah, man, I love Miss Patti so! She's been such an inspiration to me.

(Excitedly) I just had a call two days ago that Miss Patti LaBelle will perform that song at her next concert. And then we had the brilliant idea of having Aaron Camper sing background vocals on it made all the sense in the world. I called Adam Blackstone, our music director, and asked him to remake this song for me. And I went through some things in this life, and shared my angst with friends who were definitely feeling the same kind of desperation in love, and that overpowering depth of emotion. I thought: 'Wow! Can I do that>' And if I could, I needed it to be true. It's like somebody just zipping you open, and you're pouring all your guts into the music. I thought about giving it to other people (to record). Any artist would gravitate to a song such as that. Every line had this amazing passion and sincerity. It was maybe about 8 years ago, maybe 6, but it was haunting and it was true. Scott: Well, my friend Rudy Calvo – who has more records than anyone I ever met! – played the song for me. How did you strike a balance between being true to the spirit of the original song and then injecting your own feel, style and musical personality? They each put their own stamp on it and so do you. Q: “You Don’t Know About Love,” one of the standout songs on your new album, has been recorded by everyone from Carl Hall and Lorraine Ellison to B.B. But you don’t really know, not all the time, Q: Did anything you wrote in your first journal when you were 12 later provide the foundation for one of your songs? It was scary and different, and exciting and frustrating. I was documenting the changes in my body, and how I was feeling. Scott: I started writing journals when I was 12. How old were you when you wrote your first journal, and do you still keep journals today? Q: The first line you sing in “Prepared,” the second song on your new album, is about reading your old journals to check where your head is. Here are excerpts from that conversation. Scott spoke to the Union-Tribune last week from Los Angeles. It also showcases her ability to shine, whether singing vintage soul, funk, hip-hop or blues, with periodic tinges of country and electronica added for good measure. Her first album in four years, it demonstrates her musical and personal resilience. Scott, 43, is on tour in support of her often arresting new album, 'Woman.' And he said: 'Mommy, women sometimes just have to tough up.' I was like: 'Wow! Yeah! Yeah!' He shines a light on me, all the time, and then I get those good hugs and kisses from him, and it's everything.' 'Recently, I told him I was scared about something. And he says it to me in a way where, all of a sudden, he's teaching me. 'Can I do it? Am I good enough? Am I doing the right things?' Then there's that tiny victory, when he says something that I've said to him, over and over. And it has been, thus far, scary, really frightening (for me, as a single mother). 'There's no other way to put it than: 'Wow!' ' Scott continued. He's teaching me about everything, from nature to honesty to being vulnerable. 'He is teaching me with his beautiful, innocent, wholehearted, childlike love. 'Jet is the reason for putting me back together, absolutely,' said Scott, who performs a sold-out show tonight, Tuesday, at San Diego's Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Yet, while Scott's music continues to be a constant source of strength for her, the veteran singer, songwriter and actress cites an even greater force in her life: Jet, her six-year-old son. More recently, she was in the media spotlight for staunchly defending embattled comedian Bill Cosby – a position she reversed last month, in the face of damning new disclosures about his drugging of women with whom he then engaged in sexual acts.

Vocal powerhouse Jill Scott has gone through a lot in the past eight years, including a divorce, a broken engagement, and moving from Philadelphia to Los Angeles and, in December, Nashville.

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