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.

Just over two thousand years ago, this planet went through a change, and it's a normal thing for every two thousand three hundred years a planet to go through a new change; new laws, new things is happening.

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.

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

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

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