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 abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.

It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I'm seeing the same things that I lived. That's one of the things I mean when I say, "My feet back onto the ground."

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

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

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.