A record is a message, timeless.
I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
I’m not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.
I’ve been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It’s helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I’ve lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
Children are not a burden.
Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.
I’m not so much into the beats. I’m more into the spiritual side of the music.
I’ve never read one book about my father.
It’s hard to say a favorite song of my father’s. I listen to all his stuff – a lot of the old stuff before the ’70s.
The people don’t run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
It’s very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.
Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution – revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.
I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.
Music is a unifying force.
Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.
Society and the system and politicians don’t want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show ’em.
Running is a part of my medicine. It’s what helps relieve my stress, and it’s what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that’s going on in my life that I need to escape from at times – to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.
Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it’s lacking substance, and it’s difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It’s not about the actual music because it’s about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
I run four times a week. And I don’t count miles – I don’t do that. I don’t care about that. I care about how I feel, and I run according to how I feel.