Kreesha Turner Quotes
No matter what class you're from - uptown or downtown - when you're in the dancehall everyone's equal, and it's how you choose to express yourself that makes you stand out.
In the dancehall world, we have crews and they battle. It's part of the entire culture surrounding dancehall.
Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.
Jamaica is just one of those places that has so many stimulating factors in everyday existence. It definitely feeds me, my creativity and my soul in so many ways.
I'm a Canadian Jamaican. For me, I carry my Jamaican element into my music in my more recent releases.
Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.
I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.
To me, the creative inspiration is endless and coming in all sorts of different directions at all times.
I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.
When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to the song believe that it was my words and experience.
When you think about the passion that's involved wth Jamaican culture, it's like, they're not sitting around waiting for things to get all pretty: they want it raw and dutty.
When I lived in Jamaican I lived in Kingston, in Spanish Town, and when I go there the only place I want to go is Kingston because that's where the culture is the richest.