Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.

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

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

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.

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

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