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!

I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.

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.

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.

I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.

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.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.