Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe.

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you dont want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!

I got the right temperature for shelter you from the storm

I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.

It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm.

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

...my awakening life.I am awake in the present.The present is today.Today is a great gift.

I made mistakes, I made some bread. I even made a way for them to get ahead.

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.

Second isthe first of the losers.

See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.

Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It's their little happiness.

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.