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?

My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.

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!

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.

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.