As an artist myself I don’t like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let’s try to live the best we can now.
Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.
There’s a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don’t be blind.
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They’re like you and me.
Everything I’ve taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can’t say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it.
I think it’s wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They’re always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you’re doing something right.
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don’t believe they are as much alive as we are.
I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers.
It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light.
Love is more than one thing.
When people come to Jamaica, we don’t want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
There’s more to life than physical and material.
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It’s not just entertainment. There’s an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
It’s natural that anyone is compared to their father.
Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.
I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.