Music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up.

The greatest thing to me about Obama is not the individual, it does not have to do with Obama himself - it's really about the people who have elected Obama. It demonstrates that people are ready for change, and I think Obama knows that, because he really came up from the people, the young generation especially. He motivated a lot of African Americans who never voted before to go and vote.

Every one of my father's songs is a lesson.

In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it. This year, you have seen a lot of it explode on the international scene. It's great. People are looking for something different. Maybe there was too much of one thing, and now they're looking for something fresh.

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

Music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up.

Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message.