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.

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

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.

We're not to be surprised at all what we see happening in every part of the world. It's a change of the return of things.

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

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.