Soul singer Jill Scott is ticking off a list of ambitions she wrote when she was 12 years old.

The 35-year-old has already achieved almost everything on the list several times over, thanks to her three Grammys. And she hopes her current foray into acting will land her the biggest prize of all - an Academy Award.

She tells Vogue magazine, "There were simple things an extravagant things. I wanted to be a cat owner when I grew up, and I have a cat. Then to own a Picasso, and I checked that off.

"To win a Grammy. I checked that of a couple of times. I wanted to be a wife, I did that. I definitely want to be a mother. That’s still on my list.

"I want to be Storm from X-Men. So this Halloween I’m going to go ahead and be Storm."