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

I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.

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.

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.

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.

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

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.