I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.

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

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

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.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

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

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.