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

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.

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.

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.

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

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.

I don't think the Donald Trump's qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed.

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

God has destined you to soar. You have victory, freedom and excellence on the inside.

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete.

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.