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

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

I don't know where life will lead me, but I know where I've been. I can't say what life will show me, but I know what I've seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.

Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

The love is the part of us that can never go. It's the essence that was always there, so that can never go.

If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.