I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

And I was really saying that no matter how bad things are there is always a calm after a storm, so don't give up on things.

I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

You can get it if you really want

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

I could always live in my art but never in my life

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

My concern is what fight we can give to the fans. My first concern as a boxer is to try hard and give a good fight for the fans.

You can't fail if you don't quit. You can't succeed if you don't start.

Money? I lost all taste for it.