If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

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

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.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

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.

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.