In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

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.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them