Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them

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