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."

It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

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.

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

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!

The love is the part of us that can never go. It's the essence that was always there, so that can never go.

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.