I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.
Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.
My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Music is a unifying force.
Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.
I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.
Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.
The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.
The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.
I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.
Success to me does not mean money.
My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.
I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.
Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
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 don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.
Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.
Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.
As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.
Nobody owns me or my music.
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.
My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.
I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.
The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.
I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.
Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way.
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.
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
There's more to life than physical and material.
My father speaks for himself, through his music.
Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.
I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.
Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.
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.
'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.
The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.
My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.
My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
