As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

Love means never saying goodbye.

If you can't be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit existence, where you only live for others.

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

I've known a whole lot of bulls in my time, and their work is never done.

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on.