Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

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.

I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.

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.

I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

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

The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of