I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!''Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

Treachery and violence are a just return for treachery and violence.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security then the state of love exists.

You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it.

We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.