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.

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.

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 definitely trying to incorporate a Caribbean and reggae element.

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.

Jamaica is an island that is filled with so much culture.

I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.

It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.

The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Be yourself, let you come through.

I think that the Kehinde Wiley brand is something that I'm working towards expanding and to inclusion.

I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.