I'm happiest with my family around me.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others, the richer your own life becomes.

Dad named his first ulcer after me.

I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.