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

I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of Atlantis, the sunk continent, but that's my thing. But I write songs on a universal basis, not like Jamaican songs.

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

I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

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