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

Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.

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.

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.

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.

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'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.