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

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

It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I'm seeing the same things that I lived. That's one of the things I mean when I say, "My feet back onto the ground."

I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind's made up, I'll never stop, my faith will see me through.

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

People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?